Homepage — Roman Reader Relief
Fragment of a Sarcophagus with a Seated Figure
Roman, ca. AD 250.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Open Access / Public Domain.
Image Credits & Sources
Selected imagery used throughout Aevum Books is drawn from museum collections, open-access archives and licensed photography. Source and licence information is recorded here for attribution and provenance.
Mesopotamia & Ancient Near East
Relief panel
Neo-Assyrian, ca. 883–859 BCE.
From the Ninurta Temple at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia.
Gypsum alabaster.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932.
Accession no. 32.143.9.
Open Access / Public Domain.
Ancient Writing & Sacred Texts
Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun, Nauny
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21, ca. 1050 BCE.
Papyrus and paint.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rogers Fund, 1930.
Accession no. 30.3.31.
Open Access / Public Domain.
The Aevum Books image uses the Weighing of the Heart portion of the papyrus.
Ancient Egypt
Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis
Aswan, Egypt.
Photograph by Dennis G. Jarvis (Archer10).
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Flickr.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Cropped and colour-adjusted for Aevum Books.
Ancient Greece
View of the Acropolis from Philopappos Hill, Athens, Greece
Photograph by Andrey Omelyanchuk / Anshar Images.
Used by Aevum Books under a purchased commercial image licence.
Ancient Mycenae & the Bronze Age
The road to the Lion Gate of Mycenae
Mycenae, Argolis, Greece.
Photograph by George E. Koronaios.
26 March 2019.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
CC0 1.0 Universal / Public Domain Dedication.
Cropped for Aevum Books.
Ancient Rome
Temple of Saturn. Night view. Rome, Roman Forum.
Photograph by Sergey Sosnovskiy.
2011.
Source: Wikimedia Commons / Flickr.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Cropped and colour-adjusted for Aevum Books.