front 1 Image 1 | back 1 Scene with a group of rhinoceroses - Provenance: Chauvet cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc (France) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 2 Image 2 | back 2 Hand’s red-painted negative
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front 3 Image 3 | back 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 |
front 4 Image 4 | back 4 Cave painting of a bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros - Provenance: Lascaux cave, Dordogne (France) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 5 Image 5 | back 5 Mammoth tusk figurine of a human with a lion’s head - Provenance: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Ulm (Germany) |
front 6 Image 6 | back 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) |
front 7 Image 7 | back 7 The “Venus” of Laussel - Provenance: Laussel, Marquay (France) |
front 8 Image 8 | back 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 |
front 9 Image 9 | back 9 Painting with a deer-hunting scene - Provenance: Valltorta, Tírig, Valencia (Spain) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 10 Image 10 | back 10 Skull of a 35/40-year-old man struck by one arrowhead in the chest and another in the face - Provenance: Porsmose (Denmark) |
front 11 Image 11 | back 11 The world’s oldest known sanctuary - Provenance: Göbleki Tepe, Şanlıurfa (Turkey) |
front 12 Image 12 | back 12 Seated female clay figurine between feline-headed arm-rests - Provenance: Çatalhöyük, Konya (Turkey) |
front 13 Image 13 | back 13 Mask made with a deer skull with carved eyeholes - Provenance: Star Carr, Scarborough (UK) - Chronology: Mesolithic, 9,000 BCE |
front 14 Image 14 | back 14 Limestone mask decorated with paint - Provenance: Nahal Hemar cave, Judean Desert (Israel) - Place of conservation: Israel Museum
(Jerusalem) |
front 15 Image 21 | back 15 cylinder seal showing a “priest-king” participating in a liturgical ceremony - Provenance: unknown (Iraq) - Chronology: Bronze Age, 3,200 BCE |
front 16 Image 22 | back 16 Syrian marble double “eye idol” - Provenance: Tell Brak (Syria) - Chronology: 3,500-3,300 BCE |
front 17 Image 23 | back 17 Gerza schist palette depicting the goddess Hathor in the form of a cow - Provenance: Tomb 59, Gerza (Egypt) - Chronology: Bronze Age, Naqada II period, 3,650-3,300 BCE |
front 18 Image 24 | back 18 Ithifallic colossus of Min - Provenance: Coptos (Egypt) `- Chronology: Bronze Age, 3,300 BCE |
front 19 Image 25 | back 19 Narmer palette - Provenance: Nekhen/Hierakonpolis (Egypt) - Chronology: 3,200-3,000 BCE |
front 20 Image 26 | back 20 Clay tag with proto-cuneiform glyphs - Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) |
front 21 Image 27 | back 21 Proto-cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet - Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) |
front 22 Image 28 | back 22 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet - Provenance: Umma (Iraq) |
front 23 Image 29 | back 23 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet - Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) |
front 24 Image 30 | back 24 Bone and ivory tags - Provenance: Tomb UJ, Abydos (Egypt) |
front 25 Image 31 | back 25 Seal impression with the first complete hieroglyphic sentence - Provenance: Tomb of Seth-Peribsen, Umm el-Qa’ab (Egypt) - Place of conservation: British Museum (London) |
front 26 Image 32 | back 26 Fragment of wall decoration with hieroglyphs - Provenance: Tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings (Egypt) - Place of conservation: British Museum (London) |
front 27 Image 33 | back 27 Ipuwer papyrus in hieratic language - Provenance: unknown |
front 28 Image 34 | back 28 funerary papyrus of Tanuat (P.Rhind II) in demotic language - Provenance: Abd el-Qurna, Thebes (Egypt) |
front 29 Image 35 | back 29 Stele celebrating the victory of Naram-Sin (reigning 2254-2218 BCE) against the Lullubi - Provenance: Susa (Iran) |
front 30 Image 36 | back 30 The Standard of Ur - Provenance: Ur (Iraq) - Chronology: Early dynastic period, 2,600 BCE |
front 31 Image 37 | back 31 Tablette with house ground plan - Provenance: Umma (Iraq) |
front 32 Image 38 | back 32 Limestone statue of King Djoser - Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt) - Chronology: Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, Ur III, 2,667-2,648 BCE |
front 33 Image 39 | back 33 The Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid - Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt) |
front 34 Image 40 | back 34 Code of Hammurabi - Chronology: 1,770 BCE |
front 35 Image 41 | back 35 Plimpton 332 tablet: the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table (?) - Provenance: Larsa (Iraq) |
front 36 Image 42 | back 36 Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 with representation of √2 - Provenance: Southern Mesopotamia (Iraq) - Chronology: 1,800-1,600 BCE |
front 37 Image 43 | back 37 First known depiction of a map, showing fields belonging to royal estates in Nippur. - Provenance: Nippur (Iraq) - Chronology: 1,500 BCE |
front 38 Image 44 | back 38 Calendar with Nile floods and sacrifice requirements - Provenance: Temple of Horus and Sobek, Kom Ombo (Egypt) - Place of conservation: In situ - Chronology: 170 BCE |
front 39 Image 45 | back 39 Clay tablet with labyrinth - Provenance: Babylon (Iraq) - Chronology: 2,000-1,700 BCE |
front 40 Image 46 | back 40 Papyrus depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle - Provenance: Deir el-Medina (Egypt) - Chronology: 1,250-1,150 BCE |
front 41 Image 47 | back 41 Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares - Provenance: Ur (Iraq) - Chronology: 2,600-2,400 BCE |
front 42 Image 48 | back 42 Brick relief representing the snake- dragon Mušḫuššu - Provenance: Ishtar Gate, Babylon (Iraq) - Chronology: Neo-Babylonian, 604-562 BCE |
front 43 Image 49 | back 43 Wall panel relief representing a possibly parkland in Nineveh with irrigation canals, aqueduct, path with altar, and a pavilion - Provenance: North Palace, Nineveh (Iraq) - Chronology: Neo-Assyrian, 645-635 BCE |
front 44 Image 50 | back 44 Relief representing Darius I’s elite warriors (the “Immortals”) - Provenance: Susa (Iran) - Chronology: 500 BCE |
front 45 Image 51 | back 45 Relief representing Sennacherib attacking a walled city (probably Jerusalem) - Provenance: Nineveh (Iraq) - Chronology: 704-681 BCE |
front 46 Image 52 | back 46 Relief representing timber being unloaded from Phoenician ships - Provenance: Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad (Iraq) - Place of conservation: Louvre (Paris) |
front 47 Image 53 | back 47 Marble seated harp player - Provenance: Cyclades (Greece) |
front 48 Image 54 | back 48 Painted faience plaques - Provenance: Knossos (Crete) |
front 49 Image 55 | back 49 The Master Impression representing Poseidon (?) on a temple dominating the sea - Provenance: Chania (Crete) |
front 50 Image 56 | back 50 The Snake Goddess - Provenance: Knossos (Crete) |
front 51 Image 57 | back 51 The harvester vase - Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete) |
front 52 Image 58 | back 52 The Hagia Triada sarcophagus - Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete) |
front 53 Image 59 | back 53 The so-called “Mask of Agamemnon” - Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece) - Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) |
front 54 Image 60 | back 54 The “Pylos Combat Agate” - Provenance: “Tomb of the Griffin Warrior”, Pylos (Greece) - Place of conservation: unknown - Chronology: 1,450 BCE |
front 55 Image 61 | back 55 Mycenaean dagger - Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece) - Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) |
front 56 Image 62 | back 56 Boar’s tusk helmet - Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) |
front 57 Image 63 | back 57 The “Warrior Vase” - Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) |
front 58 Image 64 | back 58 Painted plaster head (sphinx?) - Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) |
front 59 Image 65 | back 59 Linear B tablet - Provenance: Knossos (Crete) |
front 60 Image 66 | back 60 Proto-geometric skyphos - Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece) |
front 61 Image 67 | back 61 Attic amphora - Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece) |
front 62 Image 68 | back 62 Terracotta centaur - Provenance: Lefkandi (Greece) |
front 63 Image 69 | back 63 Mantiklos Apollo - Provenance: Thebes (Greece) |
front 64 Image 70 | back 64 Bronze statuette of a horse - Provenance: Olympia (Greece) - Chronology: Late Geometric, 730 BCE |
front 65 Image 71 | back 65 Votive clay model of the Heraion - Provenance: Argos (Greece) |
front 66 Image 72 | back 66 Silver Stater with a turtle - Provenance: Aegina (Greece) - Place of conservation: unknown - Chronology: 6th century BCE |
front 67 Image 73 | back 67 The Chigi vase - Provenance: Veio (Italy) |
front 68 Image 74 | back 68 helmet of Miltiades, the Athenian general of the Battle of Marathon - Provenance: Olympia (Greece) - Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Olympia - Chronology: 490 BCE |
front 69 Image 75 | back 69 Pediment of the temple of Artemis in Corfu with Gorgon and panthers - Provenance: Corfu (Greece) - Chronology: 580 BCE |
front 70 Image 76 | back 70 The Peplos Kore - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: 530 BCE |
front 71 Image 77 | back 71 The Kroisos Kouros - Provenance: Anavyssos (Greece) |
front 72 Image 78 | back 72 Moschophoros - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: 560 BCE |
front 73 Image 79 | back 73 Corinthian olpe by the Vatican Painter 73 - Provenance: Corinth (Greece) |
front 74 Image 80 | back 74 Stele with Democracy crowning Demos - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: 337 BCE |
front 75 Image 81 | back 75 Bust of Pericles (ca. 495-429 BCE) - Provenance: Tivoli (Italy) - Chronology: 2nd cent. CE Roman copy after a Greek original from 430 BCE |
front 76 Image 82 | back 76 Marble head of Socrates (469-399 BCE) - Provenance: Rome (Italy) |
front 77 Image 83 | back 77 The kleroterion - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: 3rd cent. BCE |
front 78 Image 84 | back 78 Bronze ballots - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: 4th cent. BCE |
front 79 Image 85 | back 79 Fragmentary waterclock measuring the time allotted to the speakers - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: late 5th cent. BCE |
front 80 Image 86 | back 80 Ostrakon with the name of Perikles - Provenance: Athens (Greece) - Chronology: mid-5th cent. BCE |
front 81 Image 87 | back 81 Bust of Aristophanes (ca. 450-385 BCE) - Provenance: Tivoli (Italy) |
front 82 Image 88 | back 82 Temple of Concordia - Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) - Place of conservation: In situ - Chronology: 440-430 BCE |
front 83 Image 89 | back 83 Marble statue of ephebe - Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) |
front 84 Image 90 | back 84 Temple of Hera - Provenance: Paestum (Italy) - Place of conservation: In situ - Chronology: 460-450 BCE |
front 85 Image 91 | back 85 Frescoes from the tomb of the Diver - Provenance: Paestum (Italy) |
front 86 Image 92 | back 86 Fresco from the Tomb of the Black Rider - Provenance: Paestum (Italy) |
front 87 Image 93 | back 87 Ivory bust of Philip II of Macedonia - Provenance: Vergina (Greece) - Chronology: ca. 335 BCE |
front 88 Image 94 | back 88 Facade and fresco from Tomb II (of Philip II?) - Provenance: Vergina (Greece) - Place of conservation: In situ - Chronology: 335-315 BCE |
front 89 Image 95 | back 89 Bust of Alexander the Great - Provenance: Alexandria (Egypt) - Chronology: 2nd-1st cent. BCE |
front 90 Image 96 | back 90 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) |
front 91 Image 97 | back 91 Tetradrachm with head of horned horse (Bucephalus?) - Provenance: Pergamon (Turkey) |
front 92 Image 98 | back 92 Bronze sculpture of Alexander the Great on horseback - Provenance: Herculaneum (Italy) |
front 93 Image 99 | back 93 Double decadrachm with Agathocles wearing Alexander’s elephant scalp headdress - Provenance: Syracuse (Italy) - Chronology: 310-304 BCE |
front 94 Image 108 | back 94 The Pyrgi tablets - Provenance: Pyrgi (Italy) |
front 95 Image 109 | back 95 Statue of a centaur in tufa stone - Provenance: Vulci (Italy) |
front 96 Image 110 | back 96 Bronze statie of a Chimaera - Provenance: Arezzo (Italy) |
front 97 Image 111 | back 97 “Mars of Todi” - Provenance: Todi (Italy) |
front 98 Image 112 | back 98 Statuette of a woman - Provenance: Nemi (Italy) - Chronology: 350 BCE |
front 99 Image 113 | back 99 Liver of Piacenza - Provenance: Decima di Gossolengo, Piacenza (Italy) - Chronology: late 2nd cent. BCE |
front 100 Image 114 | back 100 Winged-horses of Tarquinia - Provenance: Tarquinia (Italy) - Chronology: mid-4th cent. BCE |
front 101 Image 115 | back 101 The “Lady of Elche” - Provenance: Alcudia de Elche (Spain) |
front 102 Image 116 | back 102 Bronze statuette representing a Phoenician divinity with golden face - Provenance: Cadiz (Spain) |
front 103 Image 117 | back 103 The (Tartessian?) sanctuary of Turuñuelo de Guareña - Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 104 Image 118 | back 104 Fragment of cycladic marble statue - Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) - Place of conservation: unknown |
front 105 Image 119 | back 105 Denarius with Venus and Aeneas carrying Anchises and Palladium - Provenance: North Africa - Chronology: 47-46 BCE |
front 106 Image 120 | back 106 Terracotta representing Aeneas escaping from Troy with his father Anchises and his son Aeneas - Provenance: Pompeii (Italy) |
front 107 Image 121 | back 107 Marble relief with Aeneas landing in Latium with Ascanius and meeting a sow identifying the place where to found Lavinium - Provenance: Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 140-150 CE |
front 108 Image 122 | back 108 The “Capitoline Wolf” - Provenance: unknown |
front 109 Image 123 | back 109 Consular and triumphal Fasti - Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 27 BCE - 14 CE |
front 110 Image 124 | back 110 Fasti and Calendar - Provenance: Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 3rd cent. CE |
front 111 Image 125 | back 111 Rustic calendar - Provenance: Campus Marzius, Rome (Italy) |
front 112 Image 126 | back 112 Calendar with removable pins - Provenance: Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 3rd-4th cent. CE |
front 113 Image 127 | back 113 The “Lapis Niger” - Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 570-550 BCE |
front 114 Image 128 | back 114 The “Lex Spoletina” - Provenance: Spoleto (Italy) |
front 115 Image 129 | back 115 “Capitoline Brutus” (portrait of Lucius Iunius Brutus?) - Provenance: Italy - Chronology: early 3rd cent. BCE |
front 116 Image 130 | back 116 Ruins of the Capitolium of Rome - Provenance: Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 509 BCE |
front 117 Image 131 | back 117 The Capitoline triad - Provenance: Guidonia (Italy) |
front 118 Image 132 | back 118 The castrum of Vindolanda - Provenance: Bardon Mill (UK) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 119 Image 133 | back 119 Silver denarius with the Italic bull trampling on the Roman She-wolf - Provenance: Corfinium? (Italy) - Place of conservation: unknown - Chronology: 90-88 BCE |
front 120 Image 134 | back 120 The “Cittareale stone” - Provenance: Cittareale (Italy) - Chronology: 90-88 BCE |
front 121 Image 135 | back 121 The Capitolium of Pompeii - Provenance: Pompeii (Italy) - Place of conservation: In situ - Chronology: 200-175 BCE |
front 122 Image 136 | back 122 The altar of Claudia Syntyche - Provenance: Rome (Italy) - Chronology: 1st cent. CE |
front 123 Image 137 | back 123 The sanctuary of Pietrabbondante - Provenance: Pietrabbondante (Italy) |
front 124 Image 138 | back 124 The sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia - Provenance: Palestrina (Italy) |
front 125 Image 139 | back 125 The Roman sanctuary of Munigua - Provenance: Munigua, Seville (Spain) - Place of conservation: In situ |
front 126 Image 140 | back 126 Bust of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (?) |
front 127 Image 141 | back 127 Denarius with Hercules and a globe surrounded by four wreaths, one
flanked by aplustre and grain ear |
front 128 Image 142 | back 128 Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus |
front 129 Image 143 | back 129 Silver denarius advertising Brutus in conjunction with symbols
justifying Caesar’s assassination |
front 130 Image 144 | back 130 Marble portrait of Caius Julius Caesar (the “Chiaramonti
Caesar”) |
front 131 Image 145 | back 131 Silver denarius with Mark Antony and Caesar |
front 132 Image 146 | back 132 Portrait of Marcus Antonius (?) |
front 133 Image 147 | back 133 Silver denarius with Octavian’s head and crocodile |
front 134 Image 148 | back 134 Augustus of Prima Porta |
front 135 Image 149 | back 135 Ara Pacis Augustae |
front 136 Image 150 | back 136 Maison Carrée |
front 137 Image 151 | back 137 Augustus as Pontifex Maximus |
front 138 Image 152 | back 138 Meroë Head |
front 139 Image 153 | back 139 Blacas Cameo |
front 140 Image 154 | back 140 Gemma Augustea |
front 141 Image 155 | back 141 Marble statue of Livia Drusilla (wife of Augustus) |
front 142 Image 156 | back 142 Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the temple of Augustus and Rome at Ankara
(Monumentum Ancyrarum). Fragment. |