8th Century Bc Collection (page 4)

Bell idol, Ancient Greek, c700 BC. The work of Theban potters of the Late Geometric period, in ancient Boeotia.From the Louvre, Paris

Etruscan Urn in the shape of a Hut, Impasto, 9th century BC-8th century BC. Possibly used to contain the cremated remains of an individual

Earthenware Vessel, Villanova Culture, from Bologna, Italy, 8th century BC. The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful

Phoenician Ivory, from a piece of furniture, probably made for export to Egypt, c8th century BC. Found at the burnt place at Nimrud. Britsh Museum

Bronze Swords and Shield from Bavaria. South Germany, 12th-8th century BC

Hilts of Bronze Swords from South Bavaria, Germany, 12th-8th century BC

Celtic Bronze Bowl with Cow and Calf from Halstatt, Austria. Celtic Iron Age. c. 6th-8th century BC
Celtic Bronze Bowl with Cow and Calf from Halstatt, Austria. Celtic Iron Age. c.6th-8th century BC. Cremation grave no. 671

Fragment of oven cloth, and reconstruction, from Halstatt, Austria. Celtic Iron Age, c6th-8th century BC

Dagger of Iron Gold and Bronze from a Celtic Burial at Hallstatt, Austria. Celtic Iron Age, c6th-8th century BC

Loom with chalk loom weights, Butser Iron Age Farm, c20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Loom with chalk loom weights, Butser Iron Age Farm, c20th century. The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain

Geometric Terracotta Vase, Funerary Scene, c8th century BC. Artist: Dipylon Master
Geometric Terracotta Vase, Funerary Scene, c8th century BC. Dipylon crater showing an ekphora. The Dipylon Master was an ancient Greek vase painter who was active from around 760-750 BC

Celtic Bronze Sword and Scabbard (Sheath), France, 8th century BC

Phoenician bronze of a man with animals for sacrifice, 8th century BC
Phoenician bronze of a man with animals for sacrifice, found in the Burnt Palace at Nimrud, from the British Museums collection, 8th century BC

Phoenician ivory panel from a piece of furniture, 8th century BC
Phoenician ivory panel from a piece of furniture, probably made for export to Egypt. Found at the Burnt Palace in Nimrud, from the British Museums collection, 8th century BC

Phoenician ivory of a woman at a window, 8th century BC
Phoenician ivory panel depicting a womans head and shoulders wearing an Egyptian wig and necklace, looking through a window. Found at the North West Palace at Nimrud

Phoenician ivory head found at the Burnt Palace in Nimrud, 8th century BC
Phoenician ivory head of a woman (?): found at the Burnt Palace in Nimrud. From the British Museums collection, 8th century BC

Archaic hebrew script from the lintel of a tomb, c. 8th century BC
Archaic hebrew script from the lintel of a tomb near Silwan, Jerusalem. It records that this is the tomb of a Royal Steward

Ivory Phoenician figurine of a woman, 8th century BC
Ivory Phoenician figurine of a woman, possibly Astarte, found in the Burnt Palace in Nimrud, from the British Museums collection, 8th century BC

Detail of a lion-hunt on the inside of a bronze bowl, 8th century BC
Detail of a lion-hunt on the inside of a bronze bowl, either Syrian or Phoenician, found at Ashurbanipals Palace in Nimrud. From the British Museums collection, 8th century BC

Geometric period Greek pot, 8th century BC
Geometric period Greek pot, found at Argos. In the Argos museum in Greece, 8th century BC

King Candaules, after 1859. Artist: Jean-Leon Gerome
King Candaules, after 1859. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Candaules was a king of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, ruling from 735 until 718 BC

Ambersbury Banks Iron Age fort, 8th century BC
Ambersbury Banks Iron Age fort in Epping Forest, Essex, 8th century BC

Celtic jug with double handles and volute decorations, 8th century BC
Celtic jug with double handles and volute decorations from Altmuhtal, Bavaria, 8th century BC

Procession of musicians on a steatite pyxis, 8th century BC
Procession of musicians on a steatite pyxis, Phoenician work and found at the Burnt Palace in Nimrud, 8th century BC

Assyrian relief of the transport of wood by boat for building the palace of Sargon at Dur-Sharzuk, from the Louvres collection

Shabaka stone, from Memphis, Ancient Egypt, 25th dynasty, 710 BC. The stone contains an account of the creation of the Earth. The text was damaged after the stone was used as a millstone

Fresco of a hunting scene (partially restored) from Tirins, Greece, Homeric period, c1000-c700 BC
Fresco of a hunting scene (partially restored) from Tirins (Tiryns), Greece, Homeric period, c1000-c700 BC

Achilles bandaging the wound of Patroclus, c1900. Scene after decoration on an antique vase, from the epic poem Iliad by Homer (8th century BC)

Homer, Greek epic poet. Homer (fl 9th-8th century BC) is credited with the authorship of the great epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Roman copy of a lost Greek bust of 2nd century BC

Phoenician bronze bowl from Nimrud, Assyria, 8th century BC. Originating from the area of modern Lebanon, the Phoenicians were notable traders in the Mediterranean in the 1st Millenium BC

Bronze Helmet and Cuirass, late Geometric period, 8th century BC. Earliest suit of Hoplite armour at Argos Museum, Greece

Minoan terracotta figure of a lyre-player, 8th century BC
Orientalising period Minoan terracotta figure of a lyre-player from Arkades in Crete, now at the Archaeological Museum in Heracleion, Crete, 8th century BC

Samaria, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Samaria, 1890. The ancient city of Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th and 8th centuries BC. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History, Vol

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