Sadigh Gallery

Sadigh Gallery is a family-owned art gallery, located in New York City, specializing in the handling and selling of ancient art works and coins from around the world. This blog is dedicated to all things ancient. Here you will find artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and so much more. Enjoy

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Statue of the goddess Bastet. Late Period ~ ca.600 BC. Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

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The Bibiena family transformed stage design in the 17th and 18th centuries.Credit…Morgan Library & Museum

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Vessel in the Form of a Seated Male…, Zapotec, c.250–600, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/10095/

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Lion’s Head, 400s BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Size: Overall: 24.3 cm (9 9/16 in.) Medium: terracotta

https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.27

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Cuneiform tablet: a-she-er gi-ta, balag to Innin/Ishtar, ca. 2nd–1st century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, 1886 Size: 3 7/8 x 3 ¼ x 1 in. (10 x 8.3 x 2.4 cm) Medium: Clay

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322083

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Scarab Depicting Ramesses II Smiting a Captive Before the God Ptah, ca. 1279–1213 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art

Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 Size: L. 1.8 × W. 1.3 × H. 0.9 cm (11/16 × ½ × 3/8 in.) Medium: Glazed steatite

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/549242

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Evangelists Mark and Luke, ca. 1220–30, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

Purchase, The Cloisters Collection, Michel David-Weill Gift, and Gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan and George Blumenthal, by exchange, 2012 Size: Overall (Mark .1): 6 7/8 x 4 7/16 x 1 ¼ in. (17.4 x 11.2 x 3.1 cm) Overall (Luke .2): 6 ½ x 4 ¾ x 1 7/16 in. (16.5 x 12.1 x 3.6 cm) Medium: Gilded copper and glass

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/479619

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Statue of the Goddess Hathor Life size seated statue of the goddess Hathor, depicted with cow horns and solar disk, from the Luxor Temple.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the Luxor Museum.

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Gold earring with head of an antelope, 4th–3rd century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Size: Other: 13/16 x 1/8 x 9/16 in. (2 x 0.3 x 1.5 cm) Medium: Gold

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/242900

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Bronze toes and instep of an over-lifesized right foot, 1st or 2nd century A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Rogers Fund, 1912 Size: Overall: 5 7/16 x 7 ¾ in. (13.8 x 19.7 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248729

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A bronze mask of Silenus, circa 2nd Century, was among the objects handed over to Afghanistan in a ceremony on Monday. Photo Credit…via Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

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Llama Figurine, Inka, 1476–1534, Saint Louis Art Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/1171/

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~ Roundel with a Personification of the Moon. Date: ca. A.D. 860–890 Geography: Made in south central France Culture: Carolingian Medium: Cloisonné enamel, Copper alloy, gilding, iron back plate.

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Head of Anubis Egyptian, 18th-19th Dynasty, 1540-1190 B.C. Medium: Ebony Inlay. Private Collection.

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Alabaster statuette of Akhesenpepi II, aka Akhesenmeryre II, wife of the Sixth Dynasty pharaohs Pepi I and Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, with her son, the future pharaoh Pepi II. Artist unknown; ca. 2288-2224 or 2194 BCE. Now in the Brooklyn Museum. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum.

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Male Figure, possibly 1300s-1600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: African Art

Figures like this would have been used in rituals by the ancestors of the present-day inhabitants of the Inland Niger Delta. Representing the gods and kings or queens associated with the region’s former residents, the figures received prayers and offerings in exchange for their support. The seated position of this male has been interpreted as a harmful pose intended to bring death to an individual. Size: Overall: 19.7 cm (7 ¾ in.) Medium: terracotta

https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.199

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A Chinese Celadon Jade Carving of a Recumbent Buffalo Early Qing Dynasty