This is an extremely rare Roman dark blue heavy rough glass block with superb silver "Rainbow" iridescence patina, said to have been found in a Roman glass work place northern Israel! The pictures tells 101 tales
Glass is formed when sand (silica), soda (alkali), and lime are fused at high temperatures...
Authentic ancient ca. 1st – 4th Century A.D., Imperial Roman terracotta oil lamp with round conical body and a large central filling hole with a raised ring border and three flame nozzles.
CONDITION: Unbroken, with some chips on outer edge and inner ring. Nice patina, showing the age and usage, sooty nozzles from original use, some spots with old wax deposits on the surface.
MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 8...
The Eros child emerging from a flower, showing very expressive features such as an exaggeratedly long fore and upper head. Small hole on the chest for attachment.
Bronze
Roman, 2nd/3rd century AD
H. 3.8 cm (1.5 in)
H. with stand 5.2 cm (2 in)
High quality bronze with superb patina.
Ex Swiss private collection.
The authenticity of the object is unconditionally guaranteed
BIBLICAL POTTERY COOKING POT
HOLY LAND – ROMAN “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great
Globular body with circular lines all around the entire body, a short cylindrical neck with two handles
Dimensions:
Height: 17 cm
Diameter: 18 cm
Height on stand: 20 cm
Condition: One side of the rim is professionally repaired otherwise intact
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy...
An interesting large and heavy applique, likely from furniture in bronze, with 4 masks protruding, early Roman style ca. 1st.-2nd. century AD.
With two lion masks at the top and further down a pair of theatre masks also known in abbundance from the oil lamps. These four masks are graduately getting smaller with the first lion mask the largest.
Size: 11,3 cm. Weight: 113 grams.
Condition: Choice! Very nice brown patina.
Ex. German private collection.
A lovely two-section gold earring, a square plaque with a depression and below as a hanger, a nice decorated fruitform, Roman 2nd.-4th. century AD:
Size: 28 mm.
Weight: 1,55 grams.
Intact and still wearable.
Ex. Old Estate collection of Northern German, c. 1900-1970
Aweidah Gallery is pleased to present to you this choice and rare Roman terracotta discus type oil lamp depicting an Erotic scene with sharp detials.
Dated from, 100 AD
This lamp would make a real major and great addition to the finest ancient oil lamps collection, A REAL BEAUTY" and the pictures tells 101 tales ...
In central medallion on elevated bed a male suitor stands upright on his knees as he engages his female friend who rests on all fours, her hands on a large pillow...
GLASS PERFUME FLASK
ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 2nd Cent. AD
Yellowish color, roundel flat body with a little cylindrical shape neck.
Dimensions:
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 3.5 cm
Condition: Very good condition.
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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940687
A truly spectacular example of early Roman glass, being a sea-green bowl of shallow rounded form with a smooth edge and 28 exterior pronounced ribs converging at the bottom. A wheel cut triple band circles the lower flattened section of the bowl.
The diameter at the top rim is 6 1/8", and the height is 1 3/8". The condition of the bowl is superb, with no chips, cracks, or restoration and displaying a wonderful iridescence...
LIMESTONE HEAD OF A YOUTH
Roman, PALMYRA, 1st Century AD
A charming limestone head of a youth. Depicted with a serene expression on his face, oval face with a rounded chin, his hair in thick luscious corkscrew curls brushed forward in short pointed locks...
Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this quality bronze surgical instrument. The instrument was used as a probe and one end is grooved, which may have been used to hold sutures. There is a nice banded groove design toward the end and the bronze instrument has a lovely ancient olive patina. The instrument itself measures 6 5/8" in length. This comes beautify and professionally framed with a description plaque on the front. The frame size measures 11.25" x 9.25". Roman, Ca. 100 A.D.
This is an extremely rare Carthaginian glass head pendant, circa 5th-4th century B.C. It is 1 1/2 inches long. This is a Mediterranean core-formed glass bead. It is intact, in perfect condition with no repair or restoration. The patina on it is beautiful. Please view my youtube video on this item at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsF5COeUByw.
Nice lot of two idol figures of deities incl. Mercury, Roman Imperial period, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
Size: 46 and 43 mm.
Condition: Both w lossses to extremeties, nice patinas.
Ex. German private Collection.
ANCIENT BRONZE COIN PENDANT OF EMPEROR CONSTANTINE II
ROMAN PERIOD, 322 – 325 AD
Obverse:
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C
Reverse:
DOMINOR - NOSTROR - CAESS around laurel wreath containing VOT X (crescent).
Nicely set on sterling silver pendant
Dimensions:
Length: 3 cm
Diameter: 2
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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A very attractive terracotta figure, depicting a Eros riding a goat, Roman Emperial, ca. 1st. century AD.
Very nice details of the winged Eros holding on the Goats horns, and the are standing on a tall base.
Size: 13 cm. tall and c. 9 cm. wide.
Concition: Choice and intact, unrepaired and with the original sand in the devices.
Ex. Private Collection from before 1980.
ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Roman period, 100 - 300 AD
With ribbed body and a shaped neck, "Would have been probably used to carry perfumed oils and ointments"
Dimensions:
Height: 6.5 cm
Diameter: 4.5 cm
Condition: Good condition as found
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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#62187
A beautiful ancient Roman marble head of Zeus Serapis, dated from, 100 AD
Measurements: Height: 7.5 cm - Width: 6 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass display stand
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BRONZE FIGURE OF SLEEPING EROS "CUPID"
ROMAN, 1st - 3rd Century AD
A Sculpture Dreaming About Love
The subject is a young boy, who’s been out shooting arrows all day, and he’s fallen asleep.
The arrows have golden tips … that aren’t deadly as much as powerful. Supposedly they cause victims to suddenly be overcome with feelings of love. Greek bronze figure of sleeping Eros
God of love and son of Aphrodite, was a popular subject for small or silver statuettes...
Large North African red-ware fragment depicting a leaping panther with detailed head and fearsome paws.
Excellent modeling of the musculature and great coat pattern rendered with small circles.
On the other end a hound chasing a sheep or goat.
The fragment belongs to the rim of a lanx, a larger and rather rare rectangular platter. The outer edge is decorated with a beaded pattern.
For a panther from a matching mould, cf. fig. 12, p. 418 in: Annewies van den Hoek...
A superb very sharp Oil lamp, Roman, 2nd. century AD.
Roman figural terracotta oil lamp with single handle. The discus is framed by two concentric rings, in the middle is a high profile bust of a woman with cloak over one shoulder and naked breast. Maker's mark on the bottom: MNOVIVSI. He was a lamp maker, known as M. Novius Justus, with a workshop situated in North Africa and produced oil lamps from 120 – 180 AD.
Size: 10,8 cm. long...
Authentic ancient Roman red-slip terracotta erotic oil lamp, circa 1st century A.D. The central discus is molded with two people in a sexual act on a couch, with the filling hole pierced below, framed by two raised encircling bands and an elaborate nozzle adorned with volutes pierced with a wick hole mouth and an oval ring handle at the back. On a flat base incised with an oval groove.
NOTE: Most Roman terracotta oil lamps are made of low-fire clay...
A finely preserved lead bust or head of a young aristocrate, 1st. century AD.
Interestingly the features of this bust identical to the features of the young Caligula and surely Julio-Claudian period.
Size: c. 4 cm. tall.
Ex. Old Private collection
DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Late Roman period, 4th Cent. AD
Nicely decorated with two large palm branches on the sides.
Dimensions:
Length: 9.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored
Found in Jerusalem, Israel
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#830732
Larger architectural Roman marble fragment, weighing c. 1000 grams.
A 15 cm. long and 11 cm. tall Roman marble from an architectural structure, showing a repeating vaseform or rhombic decoration on steps. A nice and inexpensive piece of Roman sculptural art in marble.
Provenance: Collection of Gunna Munkvad, Denmark, aquired from the 1950s-1980s.
Fine rim fragment showing the fight of Herakles against the snake-headed hydra.
The hero brandishes his club while three snake heads appear in front of his chest. The monster’s body winds around the hero’s legs...
DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, Samaritan, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD
Dimensions:
Length: 8.6 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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#729627
Roman Imperial style terracotta figure of Aphrodites.
She is depicted as a beautiful and voluptious concubine. She is naked from the low waist up and is bending slightly forward to look into the mirror with a comb in her other hand and she has a look of perhaps dissatisfaction on her face. Her elaborate headdress is in the style of the court, early 2nd. century AD at the time of the Emperor Trajan.
Size: c. 46 cm. in height.
Condition: Choice for the rare large ...
DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD
Dimensions:
Length: 8.5 cm
Width: 6 cm
Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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#810228
A small collection of 5 different ancient seal imprints in lead / pewter and in terracotta, all Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.
1. Lead Bulla with the Emperor in a Biga, Victory above.
2. Small animal in lead.
3. Terracotta, Aphrodites reclining, very detailed dress etc.
4. Terracotta, River godess or Sol.
5. Terracotta, Royal portrait, in the style of Lucilla.
Beautiful ensemble of impressions.
Comes with original Id card.
Provena...
North African, Terra Sigillata red-slip oil lamp, depicting a running lion surrounded by a swirling floral pattern. 2nd/3rd Century AD. 5 1/2 inches long X 3 inches wide. Repaired. Ex. old Belgian collection of Felix Lauwers, acquired 1970s-early 1980s.
DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, Samaritan, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD
Dimensions:
Length: 8.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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#719597
Ancient genuine Roman carnelian beads set on modern silver wire ring
Roman, 1st century AD.
Complete any outfit with this unique fashionable and trendy ring made of ancient genuine Roman carnelian stone beads dating to 1st Century AD set on modern sterling silver wire ring.
All jewelry designs are exclusive, created of craft way. There is only of each model.
Ring size: 54
Carnelian was thought to cause the blood to circulate smoothly throughout the body. It was ...
This ancient Roman artifact is a large, vibrant red terracotta bowl known as "Terra sigillata" that dates back to the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The bowl's walls are thin and convex, while its base is flat and shaped like a wide disk. This unique piece of pottery provides an intriguing glimpse into the artistic and functional skills of the ancient Romans and is a testament to the enduring legacy of their civilization.
This particular style of pottery features a stunning red terracotta hue and w...
Couple of Roman spindle shaped jugs each with wheel ridged body and pointed foot.
The narrow neck with thickened, folded rim. Thick handle from shoulder to rim.
Coarse ceramic with remains of red glaze in places.
Ceramic
Roman, 2nd-4th century AD
H. intact 14 cm (5.5 in)
H. repaired 14.5 cm (5.7 in)
One jug with attached shard to the rim, otherwise intact. The second reconstituted from fragments. Light earthen deposits. Decorative/appealing shape...
Bright red bowl covered by a dense, smoothed and highly glossy slip.
Deep bowl with shallow floor, steep wall and simple lip. Standing on a ring base.
Roman African red slip ware pottery is characterized by an orange color and a shiny surface.
By the third century AD, fine African red slip pottery wares became the most popular type of tableware in the Roman Empire.
Ceramic
Roman, North Africa, 375-400 AD
D. 12.1 cm (4.8 in)
H. 4.5 cm (1.8 in)
BRONZE FIGURE OF A STANDING BULL
Roman Imperial, 1st - 2nd Century AD
Measurements:
Height: 4.5 cm
Length: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 11.5 cm
Condition: Excellent archaeological condition with lovely patina
Found in Jerusalem, Israel
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