BURNISHED POTTERY BILBIL
Cypriot; Holy Land – Late Bronze Age, 1550 – 1200 BC

Burnished pottery spindle-shaped body, long cylindrical ridged neck, flat out-turned broad rim, flat handle from neck to shoulder, splaying base. Dark brown to blacl smooth burnished suface.

During the Late Bronze Age little jugs, known, as "Bil-bils" were importaed into Canaan. They have been discovered at various sites in Israel. Lachish, Jerusalem, and Gezer, mostly in funerary contexts...

BURNISHED POTTERY JUGLET
Cypriot; Late Bronze Age, 1550 – 1200 BC
Cypriot ceramic imports found in Israel Ref. Ancient pottery of the Holy Land (Amiran, 1969 PL.554).

Burnished pottery bilbil globular body with a high base, long cylindrical neck slightly off central axis, funnel rim and a antithetic scroll in relief on body

During the Late Bronze Age little jugs, known, as "Bil-bils" were importaed into Canaan...

BURNISHED POTTERY JUGLET
Cypriot; Late Bronze Age, 1550 – 1200 BC

Dark gray metallic burnish, globular body, long cylindrical neck, funnel rim, handle from neck to shoulder, base ring. Two parallel ridges round the neck at the level of the upper part of the handle

Of all the Cypriote ceramic imports found in Israel, the Base-Ring “Bilbil” jugs and juglets of the usual size are the most common (Cf...

BURNISHED POTTERY SPOUTED VESSEL
“Canaanite” Early Bronze Age, 3100 – 2000 BC

Red slip, globular body with a two loop handles, rim folded outward and a flat base

Dimensions:
Height: 10 cm
Width: 11.5 cm
Height on stand: 13.5 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found in Jericho “Jordan valley”, Holy Land

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POTTERY WINE PITCHER
CANAANITE, LATE BRONZE AGE, 1550 – 1200 B.C.

Double-shaped handle, funnel-shaped neck with a rim folded outwards and a little base.

Dimensions:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 10 cm
Height on stand: 17.5 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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# 912127

BURNISHED POTTERY JAR
"Canaanite" Early Bronze Age, 3100 - 2000 BC

Red slip, globular body with a two loop handles and a rim folded outwards

Dimensions:
Height: 11 cm
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm

Condition: Good condition, not repaired and not restored

Found in Jericho "Jordan valley", Holy Land

Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical land...

TERRACOTTA USHABTI
EGYPTIAN, 3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, C. 1075 - 664 BC

Depicted in a mummiiform style , wearing tripartite wig, arms folded across chest.

Measurements:
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 15.5 cm

Condition: lower part re-attached as shown otherwise intact

Beautifully mounted on a custom plexi-glass display stand of high quality

Provenance: Aweidah's collection before 1970- Registered at IAA

Pan is shown with a goat's head, hoof-shaped feet and the body and legs of a human. The ithyphallic god holds a horn in his raised right hand, a bunch of grapes (?) in his left...

DECORATED POTTERY PAN WITH TWO HANDLES
HOLY LAND – ROMAN “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great

From Jerusalem, decorated pottery pan with two handle

Measurements:
Height: 11 cm
Width: 32.5 cm

Condition: Expected minor chips at the rim as shown otherwise intacts

Found near Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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A beautiful ceramic dish with caligraphy, Nishapur or Samarkand, Samenid Dynasty, Western Asia 9th.-10th. century AD.

Lovely quality for the type with artful black and red caligraphy on a cream-white ground.

Size: 29 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb for this rare type and large size. Restored from a very few larger fragments with a very large part of original crackled glaze...

A lovely detailed massive silver figurine of a Male Godess standing with patera (offerbowl), Roman 2nd.-3rd. century AD.

Silver votive figures like this was popular among the elite in Rome. The figure could depict the God bacchus, god of wine.

Height 38mm, massive weighing 16,07g.

Ex. Austrian Private Collection since the 1970s.

ALBASTER STONE MACE-HEAD
Egypt, Pre-dynastic; Naqada II or III, c. 3600 - 3100 B.C.

Rounded-shaped alabaster stone mace-head with cylindrical drill hole in the center...

POTTERY FIGURE OF ASTARTE "FERTILITY GODDESS"
ANCIENT PERSIA, LURESTAN REGION, C. 1200 – 700 BC

Measurements:
Height: 16 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass custom made display stand

Condition: Good condition as shown

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POTTERY ALABASTRON "FLASK"
IRON AGE, 1000 BC
"Time of King David"

Would have been used to carry perfumed oils and ointments

Measurements:
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 5 cm
Height on stand: 23 cm

Beautifully mounted on a custom handmade plexi-glass display stand of high quality

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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Intriguing Daunian kyathos featuring an incurving shallow bowl and a handle that widens towards the top to form stylized horns, a tiny animal head inserted in between.
The cream-hued surface shows a delicate linear decoration, both on the handle and on the outside of the bowl.
For a kyathos from the same workshop, cf. vase no 202 in: Electa Napoli. L'Art des Peoples Italiques. Geneva 1993.
Ceramic
North Daunian, Sub Geometric II, 550-400 BC
H...

ANCIENT CLAY PLAQUE
MESOPOTAMIA, OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD, 2040 - 1750 BC

This baked clay plaque with relief decoration representing a seated ruler on his throne infront of a large palm branch

Baked clay plaques were mass-produced in southern Mesopotamia from the second millennium BC. They show informal scenes and reflect the private face of life...

A lovely Epigraphic pottery bowl with fine style Cufic caligraphy, Islamic Samenid Dynasty, ca. 9th.-10th. century.

A massive conical bowl both wide and tall and decorated with wonderful caligraphy in black on white glaze.

Size: Near 32 cm. wide and 12 cm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine for this rare type and large size. Restored from few larger fragments, some repainted in the joint-areas, perhaps some strengthening, but very good original crackled glaze...

Wearing an elaborate crested Corinthian helmet, wearing a sleeveless chiton, scaled breast plate, and aegis with Gorgon’s head. 1st Century BC/1st Century AD, 3 inches high. Mounted. From an old New Jersey private collection, purchased on the NYC art market in the early 1980s.