Classical Antiquities & Ancient Art

This wooden head with its long beak it that of an ibis, an animal considered sacred in ancient Egypt and related to Thoth, the god of writing and wisd

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 500 - 200 BC. Oversized carved, painted terracotta-colored face from a coffin lid; displays wide, flatly defined eye

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. A large section of a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in vibrant shades of red, blue and cream/whit

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. A large 3-piece section of a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. A section of a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in shades of blue, tan and burgandy. Panel show

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. A large section of a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in vibrant shades of red, blue and cream/wh

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. A large vertical center section of a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in shades of blue, green, re

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 BC. From a painted exterior mummy wrapping, gesso over linen, in shades of aqua-green and gold. Both panels from bottom

This is a beautiful mummy mask or, more properly described, a head cover. It is a particularly fine example because of its vibrant colours. It dates t

Coptic, Egypt, ca. 3rd to 6th centuries AD. Brown on tan background, each rectangular panel comprised of scenes of birds, animals and humans looking q

This rectangular plaque, coming from the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban and dating to the early 1st century C.E., shows the head of a bull i

Arabia, Ca. 1st Millenium BC. Long oval face with wide eyes is framed against the long rectangular hair of this statue. Incised detail of hair creates

Greece, Late Helladic IIIA, ca. 1400-1300 BC. Pottery stirrup vessel of squat broad form with concentric rings and geometric designs painted in brown

Ancient Aegean, ca. 1st millennia BC, named after the southern Greek city of Mycenae, the most important centre of a palatial culture of the Late Bro

This is a large pottery jar with a spherical, barrel shaped body from Cyprus, dating to the Cypro-Geometric period, circa 1050-750 B.C. The body, ma

Balkans, ca. 8th Century BC. Of globular form with a footed base; twin stylized bird protomes; lid with conforming protomes and peg handle with flatte

Southern Italy, Ca. 5th-4th Century BC. Bowl is composed with alternating painted orange bands and the natural color of the terracotta, both on the i

Greece, Geometric Period, Ca. 8th Century BC. Small pouring vessel decorated with short lines around the trefoil mouth and along the handle, the neck

Southern Etruria, Cerveteri, ca. 580 BC. Burnished bucchero ware chalice of Rasmussen Type 1b, supported by four flat-backed, mould-made plaques as le

Bucchero ware was first made circa 675-660 BC in workshops in Caere (modern Cerveteri) in southern Etruria. With its black color, finely wrought surfa