EditorialHead of an 'Ethiopian' depicted in Hellenistic mode, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 B.C., From Egypt; Possibly from Delta, Black bronze, gold, carnelian, obsidian, h. 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in); w. 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in); d. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in), All black Africans were ter...
EditorialWedjat Eye Amulet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Carnelian, L.1.3 cm (1/2 in), One of the most popular amulets in ancient Egypt, the wedjat eye represents the healed eye of the god Horus. It depicts a combination of a human and...
EditorialConical seal, Achaemenid, ca. 6th?5th century B.C., Iran, Achaemenid, Carnelian, banded, H. 7/8 in. (2.3 cm); Diam. 13/16 in. (2.1 cm), Stone-Stamp Seals,.
EditorialVz: a bald and bearded Silenus mask ends in a horse's head and neck, in the mouth of the horse a branch, behind the Silenus mask a cornucopia and a ram's head, the whole is supported by cock's feet., Gem , intaglio, ringstone, carnelian, Color: red, Sh...
EditorialVz: a naked man sitting on a horse that is shown with his left front leg bent, gem, intaglio, ringstone, carnelian, Color: light orange, Shape: oval, Machining: front slightly convex, Type: body modeling with elongated blobs made with a rounded drill.,...
EditorialVz: Eros is naked, has big wings and short curly hair, in his right hand the reins of the two horses of the biga, Eros walk to the left of the horses and look over his shoulder, so his face and body three-quarter view., gem, intaglio, ringstone, carnel...
EditorialVz: the Cupid sits on a horse and holds the reins with his left hand, in front of him another Cupid who wears a belt and has a palm branch in his left hand and a wreath in his right hand., Gem, intaglio, ringstone, carnelian, Color: orange-red, Shape: ...
EditorialVz: charioteer frontal with for him 10 horses, the horses are standing side by side with the heads to the middle of the span, only the rightmost horse is completely visible., Gem, intaglio, ringstone, carnelian, Color: red, Shape: oval, Machined: Maask...
EditorialVz: the horses are depicted in a usual side-to-side position and clearly broken away from a biga, the reins are shown., Gem, intaglio, carnelian, Color: red, Shape: round, scaraboid, Machined: horizontal pierced, Method: deep body modeling with two siz...
EditorialVz: the dioscuro, each with a spear in the hand that is to the middle of the stone and in the hand that is on the edge of the stone they both have a horse, they are facing each other., gem, intaglio, ringstone, carnelian, Color: orange-red, Shape: oval...