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Shadow puppet

The tradition of shadow puppet theatre in Turkey can be trac…
Electrum 1.6 stater

The Greek historian Herodotus, writing in the fifth century …
Gold aureus of Octavian

It must be hard to be an emperor and a republican at the sam…
Gold daric coin

In 550 BC Cyrus the Great founded the Achaemenid Persian Emp…
100 qurush note

In the mid-1870s the Ottoman Empire was in decline and facin…
Marble relief with female gladiators

According to several contemporary eye-witnesses, women also …
Silver double-headed drinking vessel (kantharos)

This kantharos was created in the shape of two heads back-to…
Two silver cups with repoussé decoration

These cups represent two of the most popular forms of Hellen…
A lion attacking a deer, stencilled scene of découpage paper shapes

This intricately-worked scene depicts a lion pouncing on a d…
Gold necklace

This necklace may date to the time of the expansion of the H…
Serpentinite stamp-cylinder seal with monsters and animal heads

The Uratians adopted the cuneiform script for their royal in…
Gold 'lion-hunt' plaque

The exact use of this plaque is not known, but it may have b…
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent

The tughra is an intricate decorative device that served as …
Gilded silver pieces from a belt

These gilded silver pieces make up a richly-decorated belt, …
Letter from John T. Wood to J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of The British Museum

John Turtle Wood (1821-1890) was a professional architect, b…
Bronze figure of a winged bull

This bronze figure of a winged bull was probably part of the…
Bronze coin of Caracalla with Christian graffiti

This large bronze coin was minted at the Greek city of Cyzic…
Dirham of Kai Khosrau II

The Seljuq dynasty of Anatolia (1081-1307), also known as th…
Gold croesid coin

His royal capital was at the city of Sardis in what is now c…
Lead-glazed pottery drinking cup (skyphos)

This form of drinking cup, with deep body and ring handles w…
The tomb of Payava, a Lykian aristocrat

One of the most common forms of free-standing Lykian tombs i…
Basalt door jamb

This piece of basalt is part of a door-jamb and comes from t…
Bronze furniture fitting in the shape of a lion

Although now twisted out of shape, this piece of cast bronze…
Gold figurine of a god

This tiny gold figure wears the very distinctive Hittite ver…
Haematite seal

This seal dates to the period of expansion by the Hittites w…
Ivory figurine

This beautiful figurine of a young Hittite girl is made of i…
Painted jar

This painted jar, shaped like a female figure, is similar to…
Stone figurine

Although this figure was bought at Atchana it may have come …
Bronze coin of Ephesos, reign of emperor Macrinus

This bronze coin of Ephesos comes from the reign of the Roma…
Bronze coin of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan

A fascinating and unique series of bronze coins were struck …
Bronze coin of Smyrna, reign of emperor Caracalla

This bronze coin of Smyrna comes from the period of the rule…
Bronze coin of Tarsus, reign of emperor Elagabalus

This bronze coin of the eastern city of Tarsus comes from th…
Electrum stater inscribed with the name of Phanes

Touch the animation button on the left for a translation of …
Electrum stater with a seal

The earliest coins come from Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Tur…
Gold hyperperon of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus

In the twelfth century the emperors of the Comnenian dynasty…
Gold solidus of Empress Irene

Irene (reigned 797-802) holds a unique place in Byzantine hi…
Gold solidus of Justinian I

Although the Western Roman Empire is generally seen as endin…
Sequin of Mahmud I

Gold coins consisting of multiples or fractions of the sequ…
Silver cistophorus of Augustus

In 133 BC, the last Greek king of the Hellenistic city of Pe…
Silver cistophorus of Mark Antony

Following the death of Julius Caesar a 'triumvirate for sett…
Bronze head from a full length portrait

During the Hellenistic period portrait types were created to…
Bronze statue of a goose

This life-sized image of a goose was found on the site of th…
Chalcedony seal-stone with yellow jasper inclusions

This portrait is of a heavy-looking man, clean-shaven and wi…
Colossal statue of a man from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos

This is the best preserved of the colossal dynastic figures …
Dedication by Alexander the Great to Athena Polias

In 336 BC Alexander the Great embarked on a programme of ter…
Gold ring engraved with a woman at an altar

In the fourth century BC, the Greek cities of Asia Minor beg…
Gold wreath

This naturalistic wreath of oak-leaves and acorns is support…
Marble frieze slab from the Nereid Monument

The podium of the Nereid Monument enclosed the burial chambe…
Marble frieze slab with horse and groom

In this relief slab from a frieze a large horse almost conce…
Marble relief from the Lion Tomb

The Lion Tomb, named after the subject of some of its sculpt…
Marble relief with lion and gladiator

Wild animals ( bestiae ) were used in a variety of entertain…
Marble statue of a woman

Excavations on the Acropolis at Xanthos have revealed the fo…
Relief panel from the Harpy Tomb

Lykia was an ancient district of south-western Asia Minor (m…
Statue from the Nereid Monument

The daughters of the sea-deities Nereus and Doris are known …
Terracotta figure of an actor

The face of this figure is a highly stylized mask of an old …
Terracotta figure of winged Victory

The ancient city of Myrina, half-way between the powerful ce…
Terracotta group of two women

The two women lean together on their comfortable-looking cou…
The Barber Cup

This remarkable one-handled cup was carved from a single pie…
The Crawford Cup

This cantharus (goblet) was carved from a block of fluorspar…
Vase in the form of a male grotesque head

This particular vase is a type of pottery called Knidian Rel…
Basalt lion head

This Neo-Hittite basalt lion's head was excavated at Carchem…
Basalt relief of a gazelle

This basalt relief comes from the Neo-Hittite city of Carche…
Bronze furniture attachment

This bronze object was acquired in 1877 by the archaeologist…
Calcite jar

This jar comes from the western part of the Achaemenid Empir…
Decorated footed basin

This large basin may have been used for washing the feet of …
Deep silver bowl

The region where this bowl is said to have been found was di…
Fluted silver drinking horn (rhyton) with partial gilding

This elaborate silver vessel would originally have been used…
Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a duck

Toilet or cosmetic boxes of this sort were extremely popular…

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