Antiquity

Artworks made to AD 500. 41 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.

41 artworks

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Unknown Babylonian scribe

The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet

c. 1600 BC · Clay

Iraq Museum, Baghdad

Three unnamed scribes

Codex Sinaiticus

4th century, probably c. 325-450 · 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, disputed. Low dates in the range c. · Cameo glass

British Museum

Unknown Late Roman silversmith's workshop

The Great Dish from the Mildenhall Treasure

4th century CE · Silver

British Museum, London

Unknown royal metalworkers, workshop of Tutankhamun's reign

The Trumpets of Tutankhamun

c. 1336-1327 BC · Silver trumpet

Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza

Euphronios

The Euphronios Krater

c. 515 BC · Terracotta

Museo Archeologico Nazionale Cerite

Unknown Alexandrian glass workshop

Painted Glass Goblet from the Begram Hoard

1st century CE · Colourless blown glass

National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul

Unknown maker, Roman cavalry-equipment workshop

The Crosby Garrett Helmet

Later 2nd to earlier 3rd century AD · Copper alloy

Private collection, United Kingdom

Unknown Greco-Roman bronze-caster

Boy with Thorn (Spinario)

Disputed: 1st century BC · Bronze

Musei Capitolini

Unrecorded silversmith, northern Syria

The Antioch 'Chalice'

500-550. Formerly published as second half of the first... · Silver

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 300

Unknown Babylonian scribal workshop, working for the court of Cyrus II of Persia

The Cyrus Cylinder

c. 539-530 BC · Fired clay

British Museum, London, Room 52