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Costa Rican Jade Necklace with Celt God Pendant Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre AD 1000 item# 701988
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $875.00
This piece is made of 22 tubular jade beads and a complete celt god pendant. The beads strung together are approximately 22 inches long, and the celt god pendant is approximately 4 inches high by 1 inch wide near the base. This piece dates circa 200-500 A.D. and it was produced in northern Costa Rica, in an area known as the Atlantic Watershed region. The beads and the pendant were bow-drilled, with a hole created from each end. The pendant shows line cut design and is likely an anthropomorp ...click for details

Early Chavin/Cupisnique Water Carrier, 900-600 B.C. Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre AD 1000 item# 594176
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $2875.00
This Chavin/Cupisnique water carrier is an early type Chavin ceramic and dates circa 900-600 B.C. This piece is intact and is in mint condition with no stress cracks and/or breaks. This large piece is approximately 12.1 inches high, and has a cream and light red polychrome glaze. There is some light brown burnishing seen mostly on the bottom, and there is also a very small drill hole that is seen that was done for a thermoluminescence test (TL test). This TL test was done by the prior privat ...click for details

Rare Greek Archaic Marble Griffon Table Leg Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 599951
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This rare Greek marble dates from the 6th-4th century B.C., and is the upper torso of a griffon. This esoteric piece was part of a table leg known as a "trapezophoros" that supported a table top with several other identical legs. This piece has a bird-like mouth and tongue, with cat-like short ears and eyes, and eagle feathers seen on each side of the neck. For the Greeks, the griffon symbolized the destroying power of the gods, and during the 5th-4th century B.C., it came to repres ...click for details

Late Hellenistic Lead Sarcophagus Panel with Medusas Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Metalwork: Pre AD 1000 item# 824298
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $5675.00
This attractive piece is a lead panel that was the end piece for a lead sarcophagus. This piece is approximately 16.4 high, by 14.5 inches wide, by 1/8 to 3/8 inches thick, and is a complete end panel. This piece dates circa 150 B.C. to 100 A.D., and is Late Hellenistic to early Roman. This piece has also been classified as "Phoenician", because these pieces are usually found in modern day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. The culture that produced these lead sarcophagi was a mix of nat ...click for details

Fine Mayan Carved Stucco Cylinder Vase Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre AD 1000 item# 592753
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $4800.00
This finely carved Mayan cylinder vase dates circa 600-800 A.D., and is from the northern Peten region. This piece is a tan terracotta and has the remnants of a stucco application; a purple stucco seen at the rim, and a blue stucco seen between the upper glyph band and the two registers below, and in the band that separates the two registers. The effect of the purple and blue stucco was to separate and highlight the carved sections of the piece. This stucco may have been added when the piece ...click for details

La Collezione Archeologica Del Banco Di Sicilia Traditional Collectibles: Books: Contemporary item# 821957
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $465.00
La Collezione Archeologica Del Banco Di Sicilia is a boxed two volume set that was printed in 1992 by Edizioni Guida Pub. in Palermo, Italy. This two volume set is virtually unobtainable in the US, and is a superb corpus of ancient Greek ceramics that were produced in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy). If you are a collector of ancient Greek ceramics, this book is an excellent reference, as there are 648 pieces listed with B&W photos in Vol.1, and Vol.2 has line drawings, detailed description ...click for details

Mint Greek Xenon Kantharos with Wave Pattern Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pottery: Pre AD 1000 item# 613441
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $1275.00
This superb piece is a kantharos that is intact and it is a scarce type. This Greek ceramic is classified as "Xenon ware", and was named after a similar kantharos that is now in Frankfurt that bears the inscription "XENON". This type of pottery represents a further aspect of Apulian pottery, which may be a combination of native Greek from southern Italy and mainland Greek, meaning a Greek artist from Attica. This vessel may also have been an importation from Attica into Ma ...click for details

Greek Gold Floral Roundell, 6th-5th century B.C. Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pre AD 1000 item# 649007
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $875.00
This extremely fine Greek gold roundell is complete, and dates circa 6th-5th century B.C. This piece is approximately 1.4 inches in diameter and is mounted with clay on a custom black plexiglas stand. This piece can easily be removed and can be mounted on another stand and/or in jewelry. This piece was probably part of a Greek gold burial diadem, and was placed on the head. (For another analogous example, see "Greek Civilization: Macedonia" by Julia Vokotopoulou. Exhibition catalog ...click for details

Italic Bronze Kouros Figurine, circa 6th century B.C. Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Pre AD 1000 item# 595700
click for details		Apolonia Ancient Art 303-321-7351 gallery $2800.00
This piece is a fine example of an early Italic bronze that is probably Villanovan and/or early Etruscan. This piece dates circa 6th century B.C. and is in the form of a standing Kouros. This form is a Greek convention of art which was derived from earlier Egyptian statuary, which was geometric in design, rather than realistic in form. This piece was cast as one solid mass and was then stamped with round circles for the eyes and nipples. This piece has a serene face and looks alive with the ...click for details

Rare Alexander the Great Silver Drachm: Antigonus type Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pre AD 1000 item# 738014
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This rare coin is a silver drachm that was minted shortly after the life time of Alexander the Great, circa 336-323 B.C. This coin was minted circa 310-297 B.C., and shows on the obverse, Alexander the Great in a lion's skin headdress. The reverse shows a seated Zeus holding an eagle, a N symbol below the throne, and the forepart of Pegasus, which is another symbol that is seen in front of the knee of the seated Zeus. This Pegasus symbol became the principle civic badge of Lampsacus and w ...click for details

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