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 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

Unknown Alexandrian glass workshop

Painted Glass Goblet from the Begram Hoard

1st century CE · Colourless blown glass

National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul

Unknown Greco-Roman bronze-caster

Boy with Thorn (Spinario)

1st century BC · Bronze

Musei Capitolini

Unrecorded silversmith, northern Syria

The Antioch 'Chalice'

500-550 · Silver

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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

Yue-state royal bronze workshop

Sword of King Goujian of Yue

c. 496-465 BCE · Cast bronze

Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Unidentified Hellenistic astronomer-engineer

Antikythera Mechanism

c. 205 BC · Cast and hand-cut bronze

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Unrecorded Hellenistic Sicilian workshop, probably Syracuse

The Morgantina Treasure

3rd century BC · Silver and silver-gilt

Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aidone, Aidone

Workshop of Thutmose

Bust of Nefertiti

c. 1345 BCE · Painted limestone core with modelled gypsum...

Neues Museum, Berlin

Unrecorded London goldsmiths and jewellers, with imported and reused stones

The Cheapside Hoard

First century BC · Enamelled gold

London Museum

Unknown late Roman glass workshop

Diatretbecher

First half of the 4th century CE · Colorless blown or cast glass

Romisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany