Bronze statuette of a discus thrower. Unknown Etruscan artist, 5th cent. BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ancient Roman portrait bust (bronze with silver inlay) of a young boy, claimed by some to depict the young Nero. Artist unknown; ca. 50-68 CE (late Julio-Claudian period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ancient Greek bronze infantryman's helmet (Apulo-Corinthian style, type A). Manufactured in Apulia, Magna Graecia (present-day Puglia, Italy), ca. 510 BCE; now in the British Museum.
Bronze portrait bust found in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The subject has been variously identified as Priapus, Dionysus/Bacchus, Plato, and Poseidon. Artist unknown; Roman copy after a Hellenistic original of ca. 100 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Photo credit: Allan Gluck/Wikimedia Commons.
Seated statuette (bronze with gold and electrum inlay) of the Egyptian goddess Isis. The goddess is shown cupping her right breast, which she would have offered to her infant son Horus (now lost). Artist unknown; ca. 650-550 BCE. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Bronze coin of the ill-fated Roman emperor Geta. Elevated to the rank of Augustus alongside his brother Caracalla in 209 CE by their father, Septimius Severus, he was murdered by Caracalla less than a year after Septimius' death in 211. On the obverse, the bust of Geta; on the reverse, the temple of Petra (in present-day Jordan), showing a statue of Tyche (Fortune). Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com
Bronze helmet for a Roman cavalryman, worn during demonstrations. The helmet depicts a woman, perhaps an Amazon, wearing a torque on her brow. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE. Found at Nola in southern Italy; now in the British Museum. Photo credit: TimeTravelRome/Wikimedia Commons.
Bronze statuette of a kneeling Kushite king, wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt. Artist unknown; 25th (Nubian/Kushite) Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period. Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Commons.
Seated bronze statuette of Neith, ancient Egyptian creator-goddess and tutelary deity of Sais in the Nile Delta, shown here (as often) wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. Artist unknown; 711-323 BCE (Late Period). Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit: LACMA.
Ancient Roman bronze statuette of the god Jupiter. Artist unknown; 2nd half of 2nd cent. CE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Statue (hollow-cast bronze) of Osiris, lord of the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion. Artist unknown; ca. 580-550 BCE (Late Period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Bronze statuette of Jupiter Capitolinus. Artist unknown; 1st/2nd century CE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bronze statuette of Aphrodite. Artist unknown; ca. 150-100 BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Ancient Roman bronze statuette of a seated Jupiter, from the lararium (household shrine) of a villa at Boscoreale near Pompeii. Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
Ancient Greek bronze statuette of a horse. Artist unknown; late 2nd or 1st cent. BCE (Hellenistic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Bronze statuette with precious-metal inlay of the 26th Dynasty pharaoh Amasis II (r. 570-526 BCE), shown kneeling. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.