A lovely eastern Anatolian stamp seal of a rectangular gable form, Eastern Anatolia, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal carved with animal on the base probably birds flying?.

Size: 41 mm. wide and 21 mm. tall, 7 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice VF, slight wear but attractive and with a sharp imprint.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995...

A triangular stamp seal with handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. millenium BC.

Very large for type and with an interesting two colour stone where the upperside is calsified white and the base is in the original brown stone. The seal is engraved with a reclining animal on it's base.

Size: 29 x 29 mm. 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with much even wear.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995...

A marble head of the ancient Phrygian god of vegetation and consort of the great Mother of the Gods, Cybele. Wearing the Phrygian cap, with bulging eyes and with prominent facial details. 3 1/4 inches high. 1st-2nd Century AD. Formerly in a Tucson, Arizona old private collection.

BRONZE SPEAR-HEAD
CANAANITE, Late Bronze Age, 1550 B.C.
Time of Moses
Found in the Holy Land

Condition: Perfect condition with natural patina.

Measurements:
Length: 15 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm

Nicely mounted on a custom plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand.

Condition: Good condition with natural patina

They will beat their swords into plowshares and their SPEARS into pruning hooks...

A thick early Mesopotamian cylinder seal in white-grey marple, carved with a characteristic and significant design for the Period of Jemdet Nasr, 3200-2900 BC.

The Jemdet Nassr Period in seal manifacturing,3300-2900 BC, were spreading from Southern Mesopotamia, where a great number of administrative cuneiform tablets and seals came from. Such seals was used to impress pictures or descriptions into soft, prepared clay...

A lovely large gable form stamp seal, with finding place given as Amúng Ebene (Antioch) in the eastern-most Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia.

Finely engraved in high relief with a Mountain Goat in high relief among symbols and birds.

Size: 27 mm. wide and 25 mm. tall, 9 mm...

Finely engraved cylinder seal in an attractive redish stone, with finding place given as Antioch by the Orontes, Eastern most Anatolia, c. 3rd. millenium BC or later.

Particularly interesting fertility depiction of a Bull jumbing a cow - a rare seal!

Size: 15 mm. tall and 6 mm...

Interesting and attractive seal carved in bone or perhaps tooth, North-West Mesopotamia, probably 2200-1800 BC.

The carving with birds and other animals and symbols.

Size: 21 mm. tall and 12 mm...

Interesting cylinder seal, slender type of the Western Mesopotamia area, Late Pre-Dynastic c. 2600 BC.

Finely engraved for the type with a 4-leged plant-eater attacked by another animal from the back and above, deity standing behind.

Size: 20 mm. tall and 7 mm...

A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.

Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.

Size: 18 x 13 cm...

The first of these molds depicts a Makara surrounded by floral swirls. It measures 3-1/4" in both height and width. The second shows an animal face or mask and measures 1-3/4" in both height and width. Rubberized impressions included for both.

A group of two authentic deeply formed pottery molds, used to create appliques for larger vessels. The larger of the two measures 4" in length and the interior depth is just under 1". The second measures 3" in length and the interior depth is 1/2". Both molds will come with rubberized molded impressions, as seen in the photos.

This is a large, deeply molded sculpture which would have been used to make appliques for attachment to larger vessels. The piece is 4-5/8" in length and its interior depth is more than 1". It depicts a lotus pod and comes with a rubberized impression. A beautiful piece of sculpture in its own right.

Interesting device, possible from a lock or attachment for furniture (?), Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

Attractive with nice green patina.

Size: 55 mm. - quite massive for it's size.

Ex. German Private Collection

An interesting small collection of Danish Neolithic / Mesolithic axes.

The lot consist of two early, Mesolithic axes from the hunter / gatherer period. Along with these, three smaller axes from later Neolithic period, 2500-2000 BC: A smaller thinbutted axe, a specialized small axe / chisel and a neolithic imitation of an early type of bronze axe.

Sizes: 9-13,5 cm.

Condition: Nice axes with smaller chips...

A large and well-preserved carved stone cylinder seal from the Pre-Dynastic period of Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. mill. BC.

The seal very sharp and engraved in redish stone with two humans or deities holding hands upside-down and strange multi-legged animal.

Size: 26 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely fine.

This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberl...

Interesting seal carved in a fine green stone, Western Mesopotamia, probably 3th. millenium BC.

The hard stone seal is carefully carved with a symethric abstract decoration in the style of Jemdet Nasr or slightly later.

Size: 23 mm. tall and 8 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine, attractive and uncleaned.

This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (192...

Interesting large bronze seal, engraved with something that looks like signs or numbers, could also really abstract, we're not certain. Mesopotamia, 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.

Size: 27 mm. tall and 9 mm. wide.

Condition: F-VF, chip at one end and some even wear and patina.

This seal was aquired 1990 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and imp...