A fine style Neo-assyrian cylinder seal, dating to 900-700 BC!
This cylinder seal is carved in hard dark-green and black serpentine. The engravings show Pazuzu, the 4-winged demon, gripping two rearing goats, the terminal a short branched tree. ...click for details
Beautyful Bamiyan glazed pottery bowl, dating to the 11th.-12th. century.
The bowl is very deep with a high foot. the central design is seperated in 4 compartements and decorated with green glaze and black dots on a creamy ground and with engraved/incised scrolls.
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Rare Old Babylonian cylinder seal of fine Lapis Lazuli, dating to c. 1800 BC.
The seal is engraved with a scene of worship: A demigod is leading a worshipper by the hand towards EA the great god seated on a throne. ...click for details
An exceptionally nice ceramic bowl with black and red on creamy white glaze, dating 9th-10th. cent. A.D.
Bowls including bold black inscriptions in the so-called kufic angular calligraphy were produced in the important ceramic centers of Nishapur in eastern Iran. The text often contains a proverb in Arabic or a series of wishes. This bowl ...click for details
A very rare greyish black stone cylinder seal, Levantine workmanship, dating to the earlier 2nd. millenium BC.
This seal is exceptionally sharply engraved: In the centre a male figure is depicte with both hands outstretched and surrounded by animals. The figure is possible a representation of the 'Master of animals' of Gilgamesh, ...click for details
An exceptionally nice ceramic bowl with black caligraphy on creamy white glaze, dating 9th-10th. cent. A.D.
Bowls including bold inscriptions in the so-called kufic angular calligraphy were produced in the important ceramic centers of Nishapur in eastern Iran. The text often contains a proverb in Arabic or a series of wishes. This bowl, ...click for details
A fine late Babylonian or Old Assyrian cylinder seal in black hematite, dating to 1800-1600 BC.
Southern Mesopotamian type from the socalled Isin-Larsa period. Presentation scene, with the deity facing right and Lama, the intervening goddess, presenting worshipper. In the fields a bird and an a four-legged animal. Sharp and beautyful seal! ...click for details
Rare Persian armor plate, Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE.
Beautyful bronze armor plate engraved with panels of different decorative elements. In the center walking birds of the typical Persian style. Near the upper and lower rim a series of holes for attachment. ...click for details
Fine decorated Islamic bowl, most possibly Nishapur, dating to the 9th.-10th. cent. AD
This bowl is in a very original and decorated with stylized caligraphy and some medallion-like decorations in brown and black on a white background.
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