Image 1
Scene with a group of rhinoceroses
- Provenance: Chauvet cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc (France)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology:
Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 33,000 BCE
Image 2
Hand’s red-painted negative
- - Provenance: Chauvet cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc (France)
- - Place of conservation: In situ
- - Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 34,000 BCE
Image 3
Secondary burial with the top of the cranium used as a container for further human remains
- Provenance: Brillenhöhle, Blaubeuren (Germany)
- Place of conservation: Prehistoric Museum of
Blaubeuren
- Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian period,
12,500 BCE
Image 4
Cave painting of a bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros
- Provenance: Lascaux cave, Dordogne (France)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology:
Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian period,15,000-13,000 BCE
Image 5
Mammoth tusk figurine of a human with a lion’s head
- Provenance: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Ulm (Germany)
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Place of conservation: Ulm Museum
- Chronology: Upper
Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 38,000-33,000 BCE
Image 6
Female figurine (?) carved from a red tunic pebble with at least three intentional grooves
- Provenance: Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights (Israel)
- Place of conservation: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Chronology: Lower Palaeolithic, 230,000 BCE (Homo Erectus)
Image 7
The “Venus” of Laussel
- Provenance: Laussel, Marquay (France)
- Place of
Conservation: Museum of Aquitania, Bordeaux
- Chronology: Upper
Palaeolithic, Gravettian period, 23,000 BCE
Image 8
Vulture bone flute
- Provenance: Geißenklösterle cave, Blaubeuren (Germany)
- Place of conservation: Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren
- Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 41,000-40,000 BCE
Image 9
Painting with a deer-hunting scene
- Provenance: Valltorta, Tírig, Valencia (Spain)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology:
Mesolithic, 8,000-6,000 BCE
Image 10
Skull of a 35/40-year-old man struck by one arrowhead in the chest and another in the face
- Provenance: Porsmose (Denmark)
- Place of
conservation: National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen)
-
Chronology: Neolithic, 2,600 BCE
Image 11
The world’s oldest known sanctuary
- Provenance: Göbleki Tepe, Şanlıurfa (Turkey)
-
Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: Pre-Pottery
Neolithic A, 9,500-9,000 BCE
Image 12
Seated female clay figurine between feline-headed arm-rests
- Provenance: Çatalhöyük, Konya (Turkey)
- Place
of conservation: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Ankara)
-
Chronology: Neolithic, 6,000 BCE
Image 13
Mask made with a deer skull with carved eyeholes
- Provenance: Star Carr, Scarborough (UK)
- Place
of conservation: Scarborough Museum
- Chronology: Mesolithic, 9,000 BCE
Image 14
Limestone mask decorated with paint
- Provenance: Nahal Hemar cave, Judean Desert (Israel)
- Place of conservation: Israel Museum
(Jerusalem)
- Chronology: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7,000 BCE
Image 21
cylinder seal showing a “priest-king” participating in a liturgical ceremony
- Provenance: unknown (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Louvre (Paris)
- Chronology: Bronze Age, 3,200 BCE
Image 22
Syrian marble double “eye idol”
- Provenance: Tell Brak (Syria)
- Place of
conservation: Private Collection
- Chronology: 3,500-3,300 BCE
Image 23
Gerza schist palette depicting the goddess Hathor in the form of a cow
- Provenance: Tomb 59, Gerza (Egypt)
- Place of
conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
- Chronology: Bronze Age, Naqada II period, 3,650-3,300 BCE
Image 24
Ithifallic colossus of Min
- Provenance: Coptos (Egypt)
- Place of conservation:
Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
`- Chronology: Bronze Age, 3,300 BCE
Image 25
Narmer palette
- Provenance: Nekhen/Hierakonpolis (Egypt)
- Place of
conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
- Chronology: 3,200-3,000 BCE
Image 26
Clay tag with proto-cuneiform glyphs
- Provenance: Uruk (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin)
- Chronology: Bronze Age, Uruk
IV period, 3,350-3,200 BCE
Image 27
Proto-cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet
- Provenance: Uruk (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (California)
- Chronology:
Bronze Age, Uruk IV, 3,350-3,200 BCE
Image 28
Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet
- Provenance: Umma (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Spurlok Museum of World Cultures (Illinois)
- Chronology: Bronze
Age, Ur III, 2,000 BCE
Image 29
Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet
- Provenance: Uruk (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Spurlok Museum of World Cultures (Illinois)
- Chronology:
Neo-Babylonian Period, 606-539 BCE
Image 30
Bone and ivory tags
- Provenance: Tomb UJ, Abydos (Egypt)
- Place of
conservation: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Cairo?
-
Chronology: Bronze Age, Dynasty 0, 3,320-3,150 BCE
Image 31
Seal impression with the first complete hieroglyphic sentence
- Provenance: Tomb of Seth-Peribsen, Umm el-Qa’ab (Egypt)
- Place of conservation: British Museum (London)
-
Chronology: Bronze Age, Dynasty 2, 28th-27th cent. BCE
Image 32
Fragment of wall decoration with hieroglyphs
- Provenance: Tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings (Egypt)
- Place of conservation: British Museum (London)
-
Chronology: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1291-1279 BCE
Image 33
Ipuwer papyrus in hieratic language
- Provenance: unknown
- Place of conservation:
Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden)
- Chronology: New
Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1292-1186 BCE
Image 34
funerary papyrus of Tanuat (P.Rhind II) in demotic language
- Provenance: Abd el-Qurna, Thebes (Egypt)
- Place
of conservation: Royal Scottish Museum (Edinburgh)
- Chronology:
Roman period, 9 BCE
Image 35
Stele celebrating the victory of Naram-Sin (reigning 2254-2218 BCE) against the Lullubi
- Provenance: Susa (Iran)
- Place of conservation:
Louvre (Paris)
- Chronology: Akkadian Empire, ca. 2,230 BCE
Image 36
The Standard of Ur
- Provenance: Ur (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: Early dynastic period, 2,600 BCE
Image 37
Tablette with house ground plan
- Provenance: Umma (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin)
- Chronology: Ur III period,
2,050 BCE
Image 38
Limestone statue of King Djoser
- Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt)
- Place of
conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
- Chronology: Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, Ur III, 2,667-2,648 BCE
Image 39
The Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid
- Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt)
- Place of conservation:
In situ
- Chronology: Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, Ur III,
2,667-2,648 BCE
Image 40
Code of Hammurabi
- Provenance: Susa (Iran), taken from Babylon
as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte (12th cent.
BCE)
- Place of conservation: Louvre (Paris)
- Chronology: 1,770 BCE
Image 41
Plimpton 332 tablet: the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table (?)
- Provenance: Larsa (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
Columbia University (New York)
- Chronology: 1,822-1,762 BCE
Image 42
Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 with representation of √2
- Provenance: Southern Mesopotamia (Iraq)
- Place
of conservation: Yale Babylonian Collection
- Chronology: 1,800-1,600 BCE
Image 43
First known depiction of a map, showing fields belonging to royal estates in Nippur.
- Provenance: Nippur (Iraq)
- Place of
conservation: New York Public Library
- Chronology: 1,500 BCE
Image 44
Calendar with Nile floods and sacrifice requirements
- Provenance: Temple of Horus and Sobek, Kom Ombo (Egypt)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 170 BCE
Image 45
Clay tablet with labyrinth
- Provenance: Babylon (Iraq)
- Place of
conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 2,000-1,700 BCE
Image 46
Papyrus depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle
- Provenance: Deir el-Medina (Egypt)
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 1,250-1,150 BCE
Image 47
Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares
- Provenance: Ur (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 2,600-2,400 BCE
Image 48
Brick relief representing the snake- dragon Mušḫuššu
- Provenance: Ishtar Gate, Babylon (Iraq)
- Place
of conservation: Pergamon Museum (Berlin)
- Chronology: Neo-Babylonian, 604-562 BCE
Image 49
Wall panel relief representing a possibly parkland in Nineveh with irrigation canals, aqueduct, path with altar, and a pavilion
- Provenance: North Palace, Nineveh (Iraq)
- Place
of conservation: British Museum (London)
- Chronology: Neo-Assyrian, 645-635 BCE
Image 50
Relief representing Darius I’s elite warriors (the “Immortals”)
- Provenance: Susa (Iran)
- Place of conservation:
Pergamon Museum (Berlin)
- Chronology: 500 BCE
Image 51
Relief representing Sennacherib attacking a walled city (probably Jerusalem)
- Provenance: Nineveh (Iraq)
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 704-681 BCE
Image 52
Relief representing timber being unloaded from Phoenician ships
- Provenance: Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad (Iraq)
- Place of conservation: Louvre (Paris)
- Chronology:
8th cent. BCE
Image 53
Marble seated harp player
- Provenance: Cyclades (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: The Metropolitan Museum (New York)
- Chronology:
Late Early Cycladic I - Early Cycladic II, 2,800-2,700 BCE
Image 54
Painted faience plaques
- Provenance: Knossos (Crete)
- Place of
conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
- Chronology:
1,700-1,600 BCE
Image 55
The Master Impression representing Poseidon (?) on a temple dominating the sea
- Provenance: Chania (Crete)
- Place of conservation:
The Chania Archaeological Museum
- Chronology: 1,450-1,400 BCE
Image 56
The Snake Goddess
- Provenance: Knossos (Crete)
- Place of
conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
- Chronology:
1,600 BCE
Image 57
The harvester vase
- Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete)
- Place of
conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
- Chronology:
1,550-1,500 BCE
Image 58
The Hagia Triada sarcophagus
- Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete)
- Place of
conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
- Chronology:
1,370-1,320 BCE
Image 59
The so-called “Mask of Agamemnon”
- Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece)
- Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens)
- Chronology: 1,550-1,500 BCE
Image 60
The “Pylos Combat Agate”
- Provenance: “Tomb of the Griffin Warrior”, Pylos (Greece)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 1,450 BCE
Image 61
Mycenaean dagger
- Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece)
- Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens)
- Chronology: 1,600 BCE
Image 62
Boar’s tusk helmet
- Provenance: Mycenae (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: 14th cent. BCE
Image 63
The “Warrior Vase”
- Provenance: Mycenae (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: 13th cent. BCE
Image 64
Painted plaster head (sphinx?)
- Provenance: Mycenae (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: 13th cent. BCE
Image 65
Linear B tablet
- Provenance: Knossos (Crete)
- Place of conservation:
Archaeological Museum of Iraklion
- Chronology: 1,450 BCE
Image 66
Proto-geometric skyphos
- Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: end of 11th - 10th cent. BCE
Image 67
Attic amphora
- Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: late Geometric IA, 760-750 BCE
Image 68
Terracotta centaur
- Provenance: Lefkandi (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: Archaeological Museum of Eretria
- Chronology: end
of the 10th cent. BCE
Image 69
Mantiklos Apollo
- Provenance: Thebes (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: late Geometric, 700-675 BCE
Image 70
Bronze statuette of a horse
- Provenance: Olympia (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: Altes Museum (Berlin)
- Chronology: Late Geometric, 730 BCE
Image 71
Votive clay model of the Heraion
- Provenance: Argos (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: 725-700 BCE
Image 72
Silver Stater with a turtle
- Provenance: Aegina (Greece)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 6th century BCE
Image 73
The Chigi vase
- Provenance: Veio (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia (Rome)
- Chronology:
650-640 BCE
Image 74
helmet of Miltiades, the Athenian general of the Battle of Marathon
- Provenance: Olympia (Greece)
- Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Olympia
- Chronology: 490 BCE
Image 75
Pediment of the temple of Artemis in Corfu with Gorgon and panthers
- Provenance: Corfu (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Corfu Archaeological Museum
- Chronology: 580 BCE
Image 76
The Peplos Kore
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Acropolis Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: 530 BCE
Image 77
The Kroisos Kouros
- Provenance: Anavyssos (Greece)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
-
Chronology: 540-515 BCE
Image 78
Moschophoros
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Acropolis Museum of Athens
- Chronology: 560 BCE
Image 79
Corinthian olpe by the Vatican Painter 73
- Provenance: Corinth (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Gregorian Etruscan Museum (Rome)
- Chronology: 630-615 BCE
Image 80
Stele with Democracy crowning Demos
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: 337 BCE
Image 81
Bust of Pericles (ca. 495-429 BCE)
- Provenance: Tivoli (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Museo Pio Clementino (Rome)
- Chronology: 2nd cent. CE Roman copy after a Greek original from 430 BCE
Image 82
Marble head of Socrates (469-399 BCE)
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Rome)
- Chronology: 1st cent. CE
(Roman copy)
Image 83
The kleroterion
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: 3rd cent. BCE
Image 84
Bronze ballots
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: 4th cent. BCE
Image 85
Fragmentary waterclock measuring the time allotted to the speakers
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: late 5th cent. BCE
Image 86
Ostrakon with the name of Perikles
- Provenance: Athens (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens)
- Chronology: mid-5th cent. BCE
Image 87
Bust of Aristophanes (ca. 450-385 BCE)
- Provenance: Tivoli (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
- Chronology: 2nd cent. CE Roman copy
of a Greek original
Image 88
Temple of Concordia
- Provenance: Agrigento (Italy)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 440-430 BCE
Image 89
Marble statue of ephebe
- Provenance: Agrigento (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Museo Archeologico di Agrigento
- Chronology: 480 BCE
Image 90
Temple of Hera
- Provenance: Paestum (Italy)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 460-450 BCE
Image 91
Frescoes from the tomb of the Diver
- Provenance: Paestum (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Archaeological Museum of Paestum
- Chronology: 480-470 BCE
Image 92
Fresco from the Tomb of the Black Rider
- Provenance: Paestum (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Archaeological Museum of Paestum
- Chronology: 340 BCE
Image 93
Ivory bust of Philip II of Macedonia
- Provenance: Vergina (Greece)
- Place of conservation:
Vergina Museum
- Chronology: ca. 335 BCE
Image 94
Facade and fresco from Tomb II (of Philip II?)
- Provenance: Vergina (Greece)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 335-315 BCE
Image 95
Bust of Alexander the Great
- Provenance: Alexandria (Egypt)
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 2nd-1st cent. BCE
Image 96
The Battle of Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia
- Provenance: House of the Faun, Pompeii (Italy)
- Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Naples)
- Chronology: late 2nd cent. BCE
Image 97
Tetradrachm with head of horned horse (Bucephalus?)
- Provenance: Pergamon (Turkey)
- Place of conservation:
Unknown
- Chronology: reign of Seleucos I Nikator, 312-281 BCE
Image 98
Bronze sculpture of Alexander the Great on horseback
- Provenance: Herculaneum (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Archaeological Museum (Naples)
- Chronology: 1st cent. BCE
Image 99
Double decadrachm with Agathocles wearing Alexander’s elephant scalp headdress
- Provenance: Syracuse (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Unknown
- Chronology: 310-304 BCE
Image 108
The Pyrgi tablets
- Provenance: Pyrgi (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Etruscan Museum (Rome)
- Chronology: 500 BCE
Image 109
Statue of a centaur in tufa stone
- Provenance: Vulci (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Etruscan Museum (Rome)
- Chronology: 590-580 BCE
Image 110
Bronze statie of a Chimaera
- Provenance: Arezzo (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Archaeological Museum (Florence)
- Chronology: 380-360 BCE
Image 111
“Mars of Todi”
- Provenance: Todi (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Museo
Etrusco Gregoriano (Rome)
- Chronology: late 5th - early 4th
cent. BCE
Image 112
Statuette of a woman
- Provenance: Nemi (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Louvre (Paris)
- Chronology: 350 BCE
Image 113
Liver of Piacenza
- Provenance: Decima di Gossolengo, Piacenza (Italy)
-
Place of conservation: Municipal Museum of Piacenza
- Chronology: late 2nd cent. BCE
Image 114
Winged-horses of Tarquinia
- Provenance: Tarquinia (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Tarquinia National Museum
- Chronology: mid-4th cent. BCE
Image 115
The “Lady of Elche”
- Provenance: Alcudia de Elche (Spain)
- Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
-
Chronology: 4th cent. BCE
Image 116
Bronze statuette representing a Phoenician divinity with golden face
- Provenance: Cadiz (Spain)
- Place of conservation:
Nacional Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
- Chronology: 9th-7th
cent. BCE (?)
Image 117
The (Tartessian?) sanctuary of Turuñuelo de Guareña
- Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 6th-5th
cent. BCE
Image 118
Fragment of cycladic marble statue
- Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 6th-5th
cent. BCE
Image 119
Denarius with Venus and Aeneas carrying Anchises and Palladium
- Provenance: North Africa
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 47-46 BCE
Image 120
Terracotta representing Aeneas escaping from Troy with his father Anchises and his son Aeneas
- Provenance: Pompeii (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Archaeological Museum (Naples)
- Chronology: 1st cent. CE
Image 121
Marble relief with Aeneas landing in Latium with Ascanius and meeting a sow identifying the place where to found Lavinium
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: British
Museum (London)
- Chronology: 140-150 CE
Image 122
The “Capitoline Wolf”
- Provenance: unknown
- Place of conservation: Palazzo dei
Conservatori (Rome)
- Chronology: 5th cent. BCE or 11th-12th cent
CE (and late 15th cent.)?
Image 123
Consular and triumphal Fasti
- Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy)
- Place of
conservation: Capitoline Museums (Rome)
- Chronology: 27 BCE - 14 CE
Image 124
Fasti and Calendar
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Roman
National Museum, Baths of Diocletian (Rome)
- Chronology: 3rd cent. CE
Image 125
Rustic calendar
- Provenance: Campus Marzius, Rome (Italy)
- Place of
conservation: Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome
- Chronology:
2nd cent. CE
Image 126
Calendar with removable pins
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 3rd-4th cent. CE
Image 127
The “Lapis Niger”
- Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy)
- Place of
conservation: National Roman Museum - Terme di Diocleziano (Rome)
- Chronology: 570-550 BCE
Image 128
The “Lex Spoletina”
- Provenance: Spoleto (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
National Archaeological Museum (Spoleto)
- Chronology: ca. 241 BCE
Image 129
“Capitoline Brutus” (portrait of Lucius Iunius Brutus?)
- Provenance: Italy
- Place of conservation: Capitoline
Museums (Rome)
- Chronology: early 3rd cent. BCE
Image 130
Ruins of the Capitolium of Rome
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 509 BCE
Image 131
The Capitoline triad
- Provenance: Guidonia (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Civic Archaeological Museum (Guidonia)
- Chronology: 160-180 CE BCE
Image 132
The castrum of Vindolanda
- Provenance: Bardon Mill (UK)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 85 CE
Image 133
Silver denarius with the Italic bull trampling on the Roman She-wolf
- Provenance: Corfinium? (Italy)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 90-88 BCE
Image 134
The “Cittareale stone”
- Provenance: Cittareale (Italy)
- Place of conservation:
Museum of Cittareale (Rieti)
- Chronology: 90-88 BCE
Image 135
The Capitolium of Pompeii
- Provenance: Pompeii (Italy)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: 200-175 BCE
Image 136
The altar of Claudia Syntyche
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Central
Montemartini (Rome)
- Chronology: 1st cent. CE
Image 137
The sanctuary of Pietrabbondante
- Provenance: Pietrabbondante (Italy)
- Place of
conservation: In situ
- Chronology: end of the 2nd cent. BCE
Image 138
The sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
- Provenance: Palestrina (Italy)
- Place of conservation: In
situ
- Chronology: end of the 2nd cent. BCE
Image 139
The Roman sanctuary of Munigua
- Provenance: Munigua, Seville (Spain)
- Place of conservation: In situ
- Chronology: end of the 1st
cent. CE
Image 140
Bust of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (?)
- Provenance: Rome
(Italy)
- Place of conservation: Glyptothek of Munich
-
Chronology: Augustan epoch
Image 141
Denarius with Hercules and a globe surrounded by four wreaths, one
flanked by aplustre and grain ear
- Provenance: Rome
(Italy)
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 56 BCE
Image 142
Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
-
Place of conservation: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen)
-
Chronology: 30-50 CE
Image 143
Silver denarius advertising Brutus in conjunction with symbols
justifying Caesar’s assassination
- Provenance: Northern
Greece
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 44 BCE
Image 144
Marble portrait of Caius Julius Caesar (the “Chiaramonti
Caesar”)
- Provenance: unknown
- Place of conservation:
Vatican Museums (Rome)
- Chronology: 30-20 BCE
Image 145
Silver denarius with Mark Antony and Caesar
- Provenance:
Cisalpine Gaul
- Place of conservation: unknown
-
Chronology: 43 BCE
Image 146
Portrait of Marcus Antonius (?)
- Provenance: Forum Romanum,
Rome (Italy)
- Place of conservation: Centrale Montemartini
(Rome)
- Chronology: ca. 35 BCE
Image 147
Silver denarius with Octavian’s head and crocodile
- Provenance:
unknown
- Place of conservation: unknown
- Chronology: 28 BCE
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Augustus of Prima Porta
- Provenance: Prima Porta, Rome
(Italy)
- Place of conservation: Vatican Museums (Rome)
-
Chronology: ca. 20 CE
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Ara Pacis Augustae
- Provenance: Rome (Italy)
- Place of
conservation: Museum of the Ara Pacis (Rome, Italy)
- Chronology:
9 BCE
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Maison Carrée
- Provenance: Nîmes (France)
- Place of
conservation: in situ
- Chronology: 1st century CE
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Augustus as Pontifex Maximus
- Provenance: Via Labicana, Rome
(Italy)
- Place of conservation: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme,
National Museum of Rome (Rome, Italy).
- Chronology: ca. 20 CE
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Meroë Head
- Provenance: Meroë (Shendi, Sudan)
- Place of
conservation: British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 27-25 BCE
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Blacas Cameo
- Provenance: Unknown
- Place of conservation:
British Museum (London)
- Chronology: 14-20 CE
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Gemma Augustea
- Provenance: Unknown
- Place of
conservation: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
-
Chronology: 9-12 CE
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Marble statue of Livia Drusilla (wife of Augustus)
- Provenance:
Paestum (Salerno, Italy)
- Place of conservation: National
Archaeological Museum (Madrid, Spain)
- Chronology: early 1st
century CE
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Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the temple of Augustus and Rome at Ankara
(Monumentum Ancyrarum). Fragment.
- Provenance: Ankara
(Turkey)
- Place of conservation: in situ
- Chronology: ca.
14 CE