Fragment of an Inscription

Marble Latin Funerary Inscription of Caecilius Hilarius, physician to Caecilia Metella. Excellent condition. Thin crack from right-of-center bottom to middle of fourth row of inscr...

Painted in ink and light colors on paper, this rectangular album leaf depicts an autumnal landscape with a scholar seated in a riverside pavilion. Set on stilts that elevate it abo...

Representing the head of a winged genie, or protective spirit, this relief fragment was part of the wall decoration of the throne room of King Ashurnasirpal II's Northwest Palace a...

Terracotta cone-shaped foundation nail with a cuneiform inscription, written in Sumerian, in the upper half of the object, just below the nail head. The inscription is written in t...

Three rocky land masses rise from the water, with a hint of mist surrounding the distant peak. An air of isolation, perhaps desolation, emerges from trees rendered with deliberate ...

This small, rectangular album leaf depicts a landscape with several houses nestled behind a grove trees in the left foreground; in the right foreground, a scholar seated astride a ...

Among the more extravagant developments in Samanid epigraphic wares is the elaboration of Arabic script—occasionally, as here, to the point of illegibility. The inscription on this...