| back 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 |
| back 2 Hand’s red-painted negative Provenance: Chauvet cave,
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc (France) Place of conservation: In
situ Chronology: Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period, 34,000 BCE |
| 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 Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Magdalenian period,
12,500 BCE |
| back 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 |
| back 5 Mammoth tusk figurine of a human with a lion’s head Provenance:
Hohlenstein-Stadel, Ulm (Germany) Place of conservation: Ulm
Museum Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Aurignacian period,
38,000-33,000 BCE |
| back 6 Female figurine (?) carved from a red tunic pebble with at least
three intentional grooves (the oldest example of representational art
in the world?) Provenance: Berekhat Ram, Golan Heights
(Israel) Place of conservation: The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem Chronology: Lower Palaeolithic, 230,000 BCE (Homo Erectus) |
| back 7 The “Venus” of Laussel Provenance: Laussel, Marquay
(France) Place of conservation: Museum of Aquitania,
Bordeaux Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic, Gravettian period,
23,000 BCE |
| 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 |
| back 9 Painting with a deer-hunting scene Provenance: Valltorta, Tírig,
Valencia (Spain) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology:
Mesolithic, 8,000-6,000 BCE |
| 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) Place
of conservation: National Museum of Denmark
(Copenhagen) Chronology: Neolithic, 2,600 BCE |
| back 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 |
| back 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 |
| back 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 |
| back 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 |
| back 15 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 |
| back 16 Syrian marble double “eye idol” Provenance: Tell Brak
(Syria) Place of conservation: Private
Collection Chronology: 3,500-3,300 BCE |
| back 17 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 |
| back 18 Ithifallic colossus of Min
Provenance: Coptos (Egypt) Place of conservation: Ashmolean
Museum (Oxford) Chronology: Bronze Age, 3,300 BCE |
| back 19 Narmer palette Provenance: Nekhen/Hierakonpolis
(Egypt) Place of conservation: Egyptian Museum
(Cairo) Chronology: 3,200-3,000 BCE |
| back 20 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 |
| back 21 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 |
| back 22 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet Provenance: Umma (Iraq) Place
of conservation: Spurlok Museum of World Cultures
(Illinois) Chronology: Bronze Age, Ur III, 2,000 BCE |
| back 23 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) Place
of conservation: Spurlok Museum of World Cultures
(Illinois) Chronology: Neo-Babylonian Period, 606-539 BCE |
| back 24 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 |
| 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) Chronology: Bronze Age, Dynasty 2, 28th-27th cent. BCE |
| back 26 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 |
| back 27 Ipuwer papyrus in hieratic language Provenance:
unknown Place of conservation: Dutch National Museum of
Antiquities (Leiden) Chronology: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty,
1292-1186 BCE |
| back 28 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 |
| back 29 Stele celebrating the victory of NaramSin (reigning 2254-2218 BCE)
against the Lullubi Provenance: Susa (Iran) Place of
conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: Akkadian Empire, ca.
2,230 BCE |
| back 30 The Standard of Ur Provenance: Ur (Iraq) Place of
conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: Early dynastic
period, 2,600 BCE |
| back 31 Tablette with house ground plan Provenance: Umma
(Iraq) Place of conservation: Vorderasiatisches Museum
(Berlin) Chronology: Ur III period, 2,050 BCE |
| back 32 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 |
| back 33 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 |
| back 34 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 |
| back 35 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 |
| back 36 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 |
| back 37 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 |
| 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 |
| back 39 Clay tablet with labyrinth Provenance: Babylon (Iraq) Place
of conservation: unknown Chronology: 2,000-1,700 BCE |
| back 40 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 |
| back 41 Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares Provenance: Ur
(Iraq) Place of conservation: British Museum
(London) Chronology: 2,600-2,400 BCE |
| back 42 Brick relief representing the snakedragon Mušḫuššu Provenance:
Ishtar Gate, Babylon (Iraq) Place of conservation: Pergamon
Museum (Berlin) Chronology: Neo-Babylonian, 604-562 BCE |
| 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) Place of
conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: Neo-Assyrian,
645-635 BCE |
| back 44 Relief representing Darius I’s elite warriors (the “Immortals”)
Provenance: Susa (Iran) Place of conservation: Pergamon
Museum (Berlin) Chronology: 500 BCE |
| back 45 Relief representing Sennacherib attacking a walled city (probably Jerusalem)
Provenance: Nineveh (Iraq) Place of conservation: British
Museum (London) Chronology: 704-681 BCE |
| back 46 Relief representing timber being unloaded from Phoenician ships
Provenance: Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad (Iraq) Place of
conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: 8th cent. BCE |
| back 47 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 |
| back 48 Painted faience plaques Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place
of conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology:
1,700-1,600 BCE |
| back 49 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 |
| back 50 The Snake Goddess Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place of
conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,600 BCE |
| back 51 The harvester vase Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete) Place
of conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology:
1,550-1,500 BCE |
| back 52 The Hagia Triada sarcophagus Provenance: Hagia Triada
(Crete) Place of conservation: Heraklion Archaeological
Museum Chronology: 1,370-1,320 BCE |
| back 53 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 |
| back 54 The “Pylos Combat Agate” Provenance: “Tomb of the Griffin
Warrior”, Pylos (Greece) Place of conservation:
unknown Chronology: 1,450 BCE |
| back 55 Mycenaean dagger Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae
(Greece) Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) Chronology: 1,600 BCE |
| back 56 Boar’s tusk helmet Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology:
14th cent. BCE |
| back 57 The “Warrior Vase” Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology:
13th cent. BCE |
| back 58 Painted plaster head (sphinx?) Provenance: Mycenae
(Greece) Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) Chronology: 13th cent. BCE |
| back 59 Linear B tablet Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place of
conservation: Archaeological Museum of Iraklion Chronology: 1,450 BCE |
| back 60 Proto-geometric skyphos Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens
(Greece) Place of conservation: Kerameikos Archaeological Museum
(Athens) Chronology: end of 11th - 10th cent. BCE |
| back 61 Attic amphora Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece) Place
of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) Chronology: late Geometric IA, 760-750 BCE |
| back 62 Terracotta centaur Provenance: Lefkandi (Greece) Place of
conservation: Archaeological Museum of Eretria Chronology: end of
the 10th cent. BCE |
| back 63 Mantiklos Apollo Provenance: Thebes (Greece) Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology:
late Geometric, 700-675 BCE |
| back 64 Bronze statuette of a horse Provenance: Olympia
(Greece) Place of conservation: Altes Museum
(Berlin) Chronology: Late Geometric, 730 BCE |
| back 65 Votive clay model of the Heraion Provenance: Argos
(Greece) Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Athens) Chronology: 725-700 BCE |
| back 66 Silver stater with a turtle Provenance: Aegina
(Greece) Place of conservation: unknown Chronology: 6th
cent. BCE |
| back 67 The Chigi vase Provenance: Veio (Italy) Place of
conservation: National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
(Rome) Chronology: 650-640 BCE |
| back 68 The helmet of Miltiades, the Athenian general of the Battle of
Marathon Provenance: Olympia (Greece) Place of conservation:
Archaeological Museum of Olympia Chronology: 490 BCE |
| back 69 Pediment of the temple of Artemis in Corfu with Gorgon and
panthers Provenance: Corfu (Greece) Place of conservation:
Corfu Archaeological Museum Chronology: 580 BCE |
| back 70 The Peplos Kore Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of
conservation: Acropolis Museum (Athens) Chronology: 530 BCE |
| back 71 The Kroisos Kouros Provenance: Anavyssos (Greece) Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology:
540-515 BCE |
| back 72 Moschophoros Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of
conservation: Acropolis Museum of Athens Chronology: 560 BCE |
| back 73 Corinthian olpe by the Vatican Painter 73 Provenance: Corinth
(Greece) Place of conservation: Gregorian Etruscan Museum
(Rome) Chronology: 630-615 BCE |
| back 74 Stele with Democracy crowning Demos Provenance: Athens
(Greece) Place of conservation: Agora Museum
(Athens) Chronology: 337 BCE |
| back 75 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 |
| back 76 Marble head of Socrates (469-399 BCE) Provenance: Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme
(Rome) Chronology: 1st cent. CE (Roman copy) |
| back 77 The kleroterion Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of
conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: 3rd cent. BCE |
| back 78 Bronze ballots Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of
conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: 4th cent. BCE |
| back 79 Fragmentary waterclock measuring the time allotted to the
speakers Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of conservation:
Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: late 5th cent. BCE |
| back 80 Ostrakon with the name of Perikles Provenance: Athens
(Greece) Place of conservation: Agora Museum
(Athens) Chronology: mid-5th cent. BCE |
| back 81 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 |
| back 82 Temple of Concordia Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) Place of
conservation: In situ Chronology: 440-430 BCE |
| back 83 Marble statue of ephebe Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) Place
of conservation: Museo Archeologico di Agrigento Chronology: 480 BCE |
| back 84 Temple of Hera Provenance: Paestum (Italy) Place of
conservation: In situ Chronology: 460-450 BCE |
| back 85 Frescoes from the tomb of the Diver Provenance: Paestum
(Italy) Place of conservation: Archaeological Museum of
Paestum Chronology: 480-470 BCE |
| back 86 Fresco from the Tomb of the Black Rider Provenance: Paestum
(Italy) Place of conservation: Archaeological Museum of
Paestum Chronology: 340 BCE |
| back 87 Ivory bust of Philip II of Macedonia Provenance: Vergina
(Greece) Place of conservation: Vergina Museum Chronology:
ca. 335 BCE |
| back 88 Facade and fresco from Tomb II (of Philip II?) Provenance:
Vergina (Greece) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology:
335-315 BCE |
| back 89 Bust of Alexander the Great Provenance: Alexandria
(Egypt) Place of conservation: British Museum
(London) Chronology: 2nd-1st cent. BCE |
| 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) Chronology: late 2nd cent. BCE |
| back 91 Tetradrachm with head of horned horse (Bucephalus?) Provenance:
Pergamon (Turkey) Place of conservation: Unknown Chronology:
reign of Seleucos I Nikator, 312-281 BCE |
| back 92 Bronze sculpture of Alexander the Great on horseback Provenance:
Herculaneum (Italy) Place of conservation: National
Archaeological Museum (Naples) Chronology: 1st cent. BCE |
| back 93 Double decadrachm with Agathocles wearing Alexander’s elephant scalp
headdress Provenance: Syracuse (Italy) Place of
conservation: Unknown Chronology: 310-304 BCE |
| back 94 The Pyrgi tablets Provenance: Pyrgi (Italy) Place of
conservation: National Etruscan Museum (Rome) Chronology: 500 BCE |
| back 95 Statue of a centaur in tufa stone Provenance: Vulci
(Italy) Place of conservation: National Etruscan Museum
(Rome) Chronology: 590-580 BCE |
| back 96 Bronze statie of a Chimaera Provenance: Arezzo
(Italy) Place of conservation: Archaeological Museum
(Florence) Chronology: 380-360 BCE |
| back 97 “Mars of Todi” Provenance: Todi (Italy) Place of
conservation: Museo Etrusco Gregoriano (Rome) Chronology: late
5th - early 4th cent. BCE |
| back 98 Statuette of a woman Provenance: Nemi (Italy) Place of
conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: 350 BCE |
| back 99 Liver of Piacenza Provenance: Decima di Gossolengo, Piacenza
(Italy) Place of conservation: Municipal Museum of
Piacenza Chronology: late 2nd cent. BCE |
| back 100 Winged-horses of Tarquinia Provenance: Tarquinia
(Italy) Place of conservation: Tarquinia National
Museum Chronology: mid-4th cent. BCE |
| back 101 The “Lady of Elche” Provenance: Alcudia de Elche
(Spain) Place of conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Madrid) Chronology: 4th cent. BCE |
| back 102 Bronze statuette representing a Phoenician divinity with golden
face Provenance: Cadiz (Spain) Place of conservation:
Nacional Archaeological Museum (Madrid) Chronology: 9th-7th cent.
BCE (?) |
| back 103 The (Tartessian?) sanctuary of Turuñuelo de Guareña Provenance:
Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) Place of conservation: In
situ Chronology: 6th-5th cent. BCE |
| back 104 Fragment of cycladic marble statue Provenance: Turuñuelo de
Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) Place of conservation:
unknown Chronology: 6th-5th cent. BCE |
| back 105 Denarius with Venus and Aeneas carrying Anchises and
Palladium Provenance: North Africa Place of conservation:
unknown Chronology: 47-46 BCE |
| back 106 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 |
| 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) Place of conservation: British Museum
(London) Chronology: 140-150 CE |
| back 108 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.)? |
| back 109 Consular and triumphal Fasti Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Capitoline Museums
(Rome) Chronology: 27 BCE - 14 CE |
| back 110 Fasti and Calendar Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of
conservation: Roman National Museum, Baths of Diocletian
(Rome) Chronology: 3rd cent. CE |
| back 111 Rustic calendar Provenance: Campus Marzius, Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Museum of Roman Civilization in
Rome Chronology: 2nd cent. CE |
| back 112 Calendar with removable pins Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place
of conservation: unknown Chronology: 3rd-4th cent. CE |
| back 113 The “Lapis Niger” Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: National Roman Museum - Terme di
Diocleziano (Rome) Chronology: 570-550 BCE |
| back 114 The “Lex Spoletina” Provenance: Spoleto (Italy) Place of
conservation: National Archaeological Museum
(Spoleto) Chronology: ca. 241 BCE |
| back 115 “Capitoline Brutus” (portrait of Lucius Iunius
Brutus?) Provenance: Italy Place of conservation: Capitoline
Museums (Rome) Chronology: early 3rd cent. BCE |
| back 116 Ruins of the Capitolium of Rome Provenance: Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: 509 BCE |
| back 117 The Capitoline triad Provenance: Guidonia (Italy) Place of
conservation: Civic Archaeological Museum (Guidonia) Chronology:
160-180 CE BCE |
| back 118 The castrum of Vindolanda Provenance: Bardon Mill
(UK) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: 85 CE |
| 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 |
| back 120 The “Cittareale stone” Provenance: Cittareale (Italy) Place
of conservation: Museum of Cittareale (Rieti) Chronology: 90-88 BCE |
| back 121 The Capitolium of Pompeii Provenance: Pompeii (Italy) Place
of conservation: In situ Chronology: 200-175 BCE |
| back 122 The altar of Claudia Syntyche Provenance: Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Central Montemartini
(Rome) Chronology: 1st cent. CE |
| back 123 The sanctuary of Pietrabbondante Provenance: Pietrabbondante
(Italy) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: end of
the 2nd cent. BCE |
| back 124 The sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia Provenance: Palestrina
(Italy) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: end of
the 2nd cent. BCE |
| back 125 The Roman sanctuary of Munigua Provenance: Munigua, Seville
(Spain) Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: end of
the 1st cent. CE |
| back 126 Bust of Lucius Cornelius Sulla (?) Provenance: Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Glyptothek of
Munich Chronology: Augustan epoch |
| back 127 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 |
| back 128 Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Provenance: Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
(Copenhagen) Chronology: 30-50 CE |
| back 129 Silver denarius advertising Brutus in conjunction with symbols
justifying Caesar’s assassination Provenance: Northern
Greece Place of conservation: unknown Chronology: 44 BCE |
| back 130 Marble portrait of Caius Julius Caesar (the “Chiaramonti
Caesar”) Provenance: unknown Place of conservation: Vatican
Museums (Rome) Chronology: 30-20 BCE |
| back 131 Silver denarius with Mark Antony and Caesar Provenance:
Cisalpine Gaul Place of conservation: unknown Chronology: 43 BCE |
| back 132 Portrait of Marcus Antonius (?) Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Centrale Montemartini
(Rome) Chronology: ca. 35 BCE |
| back 133 Silver denarius with Octavian’s head and crocodile Provenance:
unknown Place of conservation: unknown Chronology: 28 BCE |
| back 134 Augustus of Prima Porta Provenance: Prima Porta, Rome
(Italy) Place of conservation: Vatican Museums
(Rome) Chronology: ca. 20 CE |
| back 135 Ara Pacis Augustae Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of
conservation: Museum of the Ara Pacis (Rome, Italy) Chronology: 9 BCE |
| back 136 Maison Carrée Provenance: Nîmes (France) Place of
conservation: in situ Chronology: 1st century CE |
| back 137 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 |
| back 138 Meroë Head Provenance: Meroë (Shendi, Sudan) Place of
conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 27-25 BCE |
| back 139 Blacas Cameo Provenance: Unknown Place of conservation:
British Museum (London) Chronology: 14-20 CE |
| back 140 Gemma Augustea Provenance: Unknown Place of conservation:
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria) Chronology: 9-12 CE |
| back 141 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 |
| back 142 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 |
| back 143 Equestrian statue of Augustus
Provenance: Aegean Sea (Greece) Place of conservation: National
Archaeological Museum of Athens (Athens, Greece) Chronology: late
1st century BCE |
| back 144 Denarius with Augustus, his daughter Julia the Elder, and her sons
Lucius and Gaius Caesar Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of
conservation: Private collection Chronology: 13 BCE |
| back 145 Bust of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Provenance: Forum of Gabii
(Italy) Place of conservation: Louvre Museum (Paris,
France) Chronology: ca. 25-24 BCE |
| back 146 Portrait of Tiberius
Provenance: Philomelium (modern-day Akşehir, Turkey) Place of
conservation: Louvre Museum (Paris, France) Chronology: 1-4 CE |