KM 81.4.30/ Bronze fish/ Late Saite period, ca. 600 BC/ Egypt
KM 65.3.135/ Head of fish, glass inlay fragment/ Late Ptolemaic/Early Roman period: 1st century BC - 1st century AD/ Egypt
KM 2725/ Dolphins painted on wall plaster/ 2nd-early 3rd century AD/ Probably from the Bay of Naples, Italy
KM 2849/ Pottery fragment with fish decoration/ 2nd-early 3rd century AD/ Probably from the Bay of Naples, Italy
KM 87129/ Bronze head of a fish/ Ancient?/ Gaza, Israel
KM 69.2.76/ Pottery fragment with painted fish decoration/ Coptic or Early Islamic, 5th-9th century AD/ Egypt

This wide-ranging collection of fish representations underlines the ubiquity of fish in the ancient imagination. Fish and fish products were an important foodstuff (especially in providing a 'relish' for a heavily grain-based diet). Fish also carried many symbolic meanings in antiquity, the most familiar of which is probably the use of fish imagery in Early Christianity.