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AN ANCIENT ROMAN PAIR OF GOLD AND GLASS BEAD EARRINGS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pre AD 1000   item# 955263  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $485  Pair of ancient Roman gold earrings consisting of roundels on front and smaller roundels on top and bottom of glass beads. 2nd/3rd Century. 1 1/8 inches high. From a NYC collection. AN ANCIENT ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS BEAD PENDANT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Pre AD 1000   item# 955258  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $235  Pendant consisting of an ancient Roman glass bead with ancient gold roundel on top and on bottom with gold loop on top for suspension. 2nd/3rd century. 5/8 inch. From a NYC collection. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GOLD AMULET OF TAURET Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Pre AD 1000   item# 954954  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $690 (reserved)  Repousse gold amulet of Tauret, depicted as a pregnant female hippopotamus with ferocious expression, wearing a wig, the hind legs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 B.C. 5/8 inches high. Intact with intact suspension loop. From an old German collection, collected in the 1950s. Tauret's most common role was as a protectoress of pregnant women. AN ANCIENT GREEK GOLD ROUNDEL OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Pre AD 1000   item# 954936  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $390  Depicting the head of Alexander The Great. With holes for attachment. Probably used as an ornament on clothing. 3rd Century B.C. 9/16 inch. Ex. NYC collection. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEMATITE TAURET AMULET Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Stone: Pre AD 1000   item# 954146  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $250  Normally depicted as a pregnant female hippopotamus, wearing a tripartite wig, with human breasts, the hind legs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. Late Period, 600-332 B.C. 7/8 inch high. Intact with intact suspension loop. Ex. Private NYC collection, acquired more than 30 years ago. Tauret's most common role was as a protectoress of pregnant women. Hematite is a silvery, shiny hard opaque stone that almost looks like metal. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GOLD POPPY BEAD AMULET Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Pre AD 1000   item# 953890  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $485 (reserved)  Egyptian gold bulbous poppy bead amulet with intact suspension loop. New Kingdom, 1400-1070 B.C. 9/16 inch. Ex. old New Jersey private collection. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE URAEUS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Bronze: Pre AD 1000   item# 953876  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $395  An erect detailed bronze cobra figure in a striking position. Probably from a crown. Late Period, 600-332 B.C. 1 1/4 inches high. Intact. Mounted. From an old New Jersey collection. The uraeus appears as a symbol worn on the crown or headdress of royalty or a deity. It is used as a protective symbol, the Egyptians believed that the cobra would spit fire at any approaching enemies. A LARGE ANCIENT ROMAN TERRACOTTA APHRODITE Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 952231  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $3200  A fine Roman terracotta Aphrodite/Venus, standing nude in a sensuous pose on an integral base, pulling a voluminous cape around her back, with a dolphin depicted on her right side. Single line of inscription on the back of the base. 1st Century AD. 12 1/4 inches high. Repaired. From a NYC private collection. AN ANCIENT ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF MAN Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 952216  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $2900  Depicting an elderly man with well-defined eyes, high cheek bones, thin lips, wrinkled cheeks, crease on forehead, thick wavy hair, thick mustache and thick beard. 2nd/3rd Century. 5 1/2 inches high. Ancient losses. Mounted. From a West coast private collection. AN ANCIENT GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME OF A GODDESS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 952199  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $650  Greek figure of a goddess wearing a pointed cap and a diadem with large petals. 6th Century B.C. 4 1/8 inches high. Mounted. Ex. Dutch private collection. Collected in the 1960s. AN ANCIENT GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME OF A GODDESS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 952197  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $595  With finely modeled facial details. She is wearing a polos above her brow of archaic style curls, with braids at both sides of her head. 6th Century B.C. 5 inches high. Ex. Dutch private collection, acquired in the 1960s. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LARGE PAINTED WOOD PANEL Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Wood: Pre AD 1000   item# 944337  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $6900  Large painted wood panel from a sarcophagus. Depicting the sky goddess Nut along with the four Sons of Horus, Nut is wearing the disc crown, with the head in profile and with pleasant facial expression, wearing an elaborate, tightly-fitted garment, wearing bracelets and armlets and depicted with two left hands. Late Period, 600-32 B.C. 41.5 inches high. Some age losses with extensive remains of original pigment. Ex. NYC collection. Nut was the goddess of the sky. Her name is translated to mean N ...click for details AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE PLAQUE Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Stone: Pre AD 1000   item# 942286  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $395  A`fine rectangular limestone double-sided seal with a scarab (kepher) between two feathers on one side and a scarab along with an elaborate inscription on the reverse. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1292 B.C. 1 inch X 1 1/2 inches. Intact with traces of glaze. Pierced for suspension. The Egyptian hieroglyphic " Kepher " means " to succeed to be ", that is to say, to make oneself, to give oneself a given form, to rebuild oneself. The feather represents the symbol of truth. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE THOTH Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Bronze: Pre AD 1000   item# 942283  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $279  A rare depiction of a bronze Thoth. Wearing a tripartite wig and incised kilt. The arms are extended forward while he is holding a Hes vase. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 1 1/2 inches high. Fragmentary. From a NYC collection. AN ANCIENT ILLYRIAN GREEK BRONZE HELMET Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Greek: Bronze: Pre AD 1000   item# 940274  click for details Explorer Ancient Art 718-979-9205 $17,000  Of high domed form with long cheek-guards and everted neck-guard, parallel ridges on the crown, rivet in front used for attachment of the crest, perimeter of the cheek-guards and front of helmet finely incised with beading design. 6th Century B.C. 10 1/2 inches high. Ex. NYC private collection. pages:  1   2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9