Antiquity

Artworks made to AD 500. 44 recorded, each with a cited chain of ownership. The era is read from the year on each record; the record's own date line is what counts.

44 artworks

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Unknown sculptor, western Greek workshop

Cult Statue of a Goddess

c. 425-400 BC · Pseudo-acrolithic

Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aidone, Aidone

Israel Rouchomovsky

Tiara of Saitapharnes

1894 to 1895 · Gold sheet

Musee du Louvre, Paris

Unidentified sculptor, Greek Archaic or modern

Kouros

c. 530 BCE · Dolomitic marble

J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Malibu

Unrecorded Roman cage-cup workshop

The Lycurgus Cup

4th century AD · Dichroic glass containing colloidal gold...

British Museum

Attributed to Praxiteles, or a follower

The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer

c. 350 BCE · Bronze

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Unknown Late Roman silversmith

The Corbridge Lanx

4th century AD · Silver

British Museum, London

Unknown Roman gold-glass engraver

Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios

250-300 CE · Glass

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Unknown workshop, late Ptolemaic Egypt

Gilded Coffin of Nedjemankh

c. 150-50 BC · Cartonnage

Arab Republic of Egypt

Unknown Babylonian scribe

The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet

c. 1600 BC · Clay

Iraq Museum, Baghdad

Three unnamed scribes

Codex Sinaiticus

4th century · Ink on vellum

The British Library, London

Unknown Roman silversmiths' workshop

The Projecta Casket

c. 380 · Silver

British Museum, London

Unrecorded Roman glassworker and gem-cutter

The Portland Vase

c. AD 5-25 · Cameo glass

British Museum

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