The British Museum

Search highlight objects from the collection

You might like

You searched for "".

120 results

Three carved stone balls

Over four hundred stone balls like this have been found, nea…
Tombstone of Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus

This is the reconstructed tombstone of Gaius Julius Alpinus …
Tombstone of Gaius Saufeius

The short epitaph on the tombstone gives us quite a lot of i…
Tombstone of Titus Valerius Pudens

This is the tombstone of Titus Valerius Pudens, a Roman sold…
Seated Buddha from Gandhara

Soon after his enlightenment, the Buddha travelled to a deer…
Fragment of painted plaster from the tomb of Sebekhotep

Sebekhotep was a senior treasury official of the reign of Th…
Birdman boulder

The boulder is carved in low relief with a birdman figure ho…
Fragment of a stone box (tepetlacalli)

This fragment of a stone box is carved with various represen…
Hoa Hakananai'a

The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ances…
Jade portrait head inscribed with glyphs

This Maya head was carved from a single block of jade. The e…
Shell scraper

This scraping tool is composed of three elements: a blade ma…
Stone bust of the Maize God

The Maize God, with his vibrant, youthful features, represen…
Stone figure of Xiuhcoatl

The serpent played an important role in Mexica religion. Man…
Stone sculpture of Chalchiuhtlicue

This stone sculpture represents Chalchiuhtlicue, the Mexica …
Stone seated figure of Xiuhtecuhtli

This figure represents Xiuhtecuhtli, the Mexica god of fire.…
Ulu with a musk ox horn handle

Inuit women use an ulu , a crescent-shaped knife, in most as…
Yaxchilán lintel 15

This limestone lintel is one of a series of three panels com…
Yaxchilán lintel 17

This limestone lintel is one of a series of three panels com…
Gilded bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara

Bodhisattvas appear similar to Buddhas, but with more varie…
Schist relief panel depicting the division of the Buddha's relics

According to the ancient Sanskrit text, the Mahaparinirvana-…
Sculpted panel depicting Vishnu Trivikrama

The demon-king Bali became so powerful that he threatened co…
Stone figure of Mamaki

The goddess Mamaki is seated on a double lotus throne. In he…
Stone relief of the Crowned Buddha

This stone relief was discovered at Bodh Gaya, the location …
Stone sculpture of Durga Mahishasuramardini

The myth of Durga killing the buffalo-demon Mahisha has been…
Stone statue of Shiva as Lingodbhava

This stone statue is of the powerful Hindu god Shiva , in hi…
Head of Augustus

In 31 BC he defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the battle…
Alabaster 'Eye Idols'

Tell Brak is the modern name of a huge site in north Mesopot…
Alabaster head

Most Mesopotamian buildings were made of mud brick. Over tim…
Altar frieze

This frieze assembled from different materials is an example…
Boundary stone (kudurru)

This kudurru records the purchase of a piece of land by Mard…
Boundary stone (kudurru)

The shape, layout and design of this kudurru are very charac…
Carved stone inscription of Jalal al-Din Khwarazm-Shah

Jalal al-Din Khwarazm-Shāh (died 1231) inherited an emp…
Colossal statue of a lion

This gigantic standing lion, roaring angrily, formed one of …
Commemorative stone stela

This stela comes from the Temple of Marduk in Babylon. It is…
Gold figures of deities

Most of the thirty-eight small gold figures (five illustrate…
Sceptre

Leonard Woolley found this sceptre in the largest of the gra…
Stela of Ashurbanipal

One of the duties of a Mesopotamian king was to care for the…
Stone lion's head

This lion's head of white limestone comes from the Temple of…
Stone mace head

Mesopotamian gods are shown brandishing maces in ancient car…
Stone relief from Persepolis showing a servant

This relief from Persepolis shows a servant wearing so-calle…
Stone relief from the Apadana (audience hall) at Persepolis

This broken relief from the Persian royal capital Persepolis…
Stone relief showing a sphinx

This male sphinx wears the imposing horned headdress of a di…
Stone stela showing an Aramaean king

This unusual stela was found by J.L. Porter, the British con…
The East India House Inscription

After the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to the armies of Media a…
Carved stone capital

This capital is a remnant from the priory of Lewes in Sussex…
Disc-on-bow brooch

The combined elements on this disc-on-bow brooch produce a r…
Sceptre from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo

Most rulers, ancient and modern, use emblems of power to enh…
Altar to 'Fortune the Home-Bringer, to Aesculapius and to Salus'

This altar was dedicated to 'Fortune the Home-bringer, to Ae…
Axes from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages

During the Enlightenment, many antiquaries published descrip…
Pointed flint handaxe

This flint handaxe was found in gravel near the bones of an …
The Hinton St Mary Mosaic

There were traces of a substantial building complex, probabl…
Stone relief from the throne room of Ashurnasirpal II

This Assyrian relief comes from the throne room of the so-ca…

Results from the collection database

Results

Your search returned 0 results.

See all results in the collection database from two million objects