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I am presuming that by 'periodic elements' you are meaning modern elements, as opposed to Aristotle's fire, earth, air, and water, and aether.

There was no periodic law until 1869, so no element becomes 'periodic' until after that date -- hardly 'ancient'.

The seven metals known to the ancients were associated with the known heavenly bodies, and therefore inherited their astrological symbols

Moon silver

Saturn lead

Jupiter tin

Venus copper

Mercury mercury

Mars iron

Sun gold

The two non-metallic elements known to the ancients were sulfur and carbon. Sulfur has several different alchemical symbols associated with it, but the simplest and most plausibly ancient is an equilateral triangle on its flat base with a + sign hanging from the centre of the base. About carbon I have no idea.

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