Styles and periods

Geometric and Early Archaic period
(8th to early 5th century BC)

Later Archaic period
(early 6th to early 5th century BC)

Classical period
(5th to 4th centuries BC)

Hellenistic period
(late 4th to 1st century BC)

Classical Phoenician Scarabs
(later 6th to mid 4th century BC)

Greco-Persian Gems
(later 6th to later 4th century BC)

Late Antique, Early Christian and Jewish
(mid 3rd to 7th century AD)

Etruscan Gems  
(Second half 6th to 4th century and later)