Interesting lot of Celtic La Tene culture bronze items, c. 4th.-2nd. century BC.
The lot includes a very attractive broad bracelet, a peculiar stamp seal (?), Proto-money and a couple of bronze arm-rings.
Ex. German Collection. Found around Karlstein, Bavaria. Ex. German Private collection of metal antiquities from bronzeage to the early Roman period, Germany,
A choice and large tanged bronze lance, Ancient Near East, mid 2nd. mill. BC BC. 'Luristan' Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan bronze age.
A very impressive and decorative bronze lance with a long, bent tang, massive socket and a broad, leaf-shaped blade with highly profiled midrib.
A beautiful lance that would have been highly efficient on combat.
Size: c. 35,5 cm. long.
Condition: Choice. Beautiful green bronze patina...
Shabti for Padihoremheb
Petit chaouabti portant les instruments aratoires peints, la perruque tripartite ceinte d'un bandeau blanc. Il présente une colonne ventrale au nom de Mout-em-Wouia Bois polychrome à pigments noirs, rouges et blancs.
Origin: Egypt
Period: New Kingdom, 18. – 20. Dynastie
Date: 1550 - 1069 B.C.
Material: Wood
Dimension: 12,3 cm...
Directly from Jerusalem, Aweidah Gallery is pleased to offer this RARE- ancient Greek Silver Tyre Shekel “ The thirty pieces of Silver which was paid to Judas for betraying the christ”
Dated year 159 - 33/34 C.E.
Obverse: laureate head of Melqart facing right, wearing knotted lionskin around neck
Reverse: Eagle standing lt. with rt. foot on prow of ship, palm branch over rt. shoulder, date and club in field to left...
A rare bone seal with a finely carved base, Western Mesopotamia, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.
The seal in the oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a a pair of goats heads and it's probably made by the Hattites / early Hittite people.
Size: 25 mm. by 22 mm. and 9 mm. tall.
Condition: Fine, intact with hairline cracks...
A rare large pottery figure of Thot as a Baboon Late-Ptolemaic period, 5th.-1st. century BC.
A mold-made votive figure of the god Thot, depicted here seated as a Baboon holding a round object and very detailed with remnants of pigments.
Interesting, large figures like this are usuaully only encountered in faiance or stone so a scarce late representation in terracotta.
Size: 9 cm. tall and 5,3 cm...
Menkheperra B – mn-xpr-ra
Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...
A fine Neo-Babylonian stamp seal carved in the typical trapezoid shape, but using an unsual greenstone, West-Mesopotamia, 8th.-7th. cent...
Large decorated powder flask, Morocco, 19th. cent.
Wood with brown leather and brass rivets, attractive patina.
Size: 28 cm. tall.
Choice and intact condition.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection and the flask comes with an identity card from the collection, added in 1990.
A fine thick and large cylinder seal, Mesopotamia Uruk-Pre-Dynastic, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC
Very vividly engraved in a black stone with what looks like a human holding a bulls eye or sun symbol and perhaps about to climb a latter. Interesting symbols in the fields as well.
Size: 25 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with fine patina and deposits in the details...
PAINTED POTTERY WINE PITCHER
CANAANITE, LATE BRONZE AGE, 1550 – 1200 B.C.
Time of Moses
Dimensions:
Height: 13.5 cm
Diameter: 14 cm
Height on stand: 17.5 cm
Condition: Good condition
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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# 912207
A 'Nishapur' type of ware, probably made in the Samenid period, c. 10th. century AD.
Highly attractive and rare seen type of vessel with a lovely torquise glaze and two handles.
Size: 14 cm. tall and 13 cm. wide.
Condition: Choice and basically intact with a chip to the footring restored and some minor chips to the glaze of the rim and short hairlines.
Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired between 1930s-1970s.
Highly stylized female figure carved from a long bone. Details of the head, the anatomy and tattoos carefully drawn in ink and faintly visible...
A larger and well-engraved Chalchedony stamp seal, Neo-babylonian period of Mesopotamia, 8th.-6th. century BC.
Trapezoid shape, decorated with a fine style image of Marduk, the main god of the early Neo-Babylonian Empire, standing in front of a complicated structure with podiums and towers, crescent above. Complete with suspension hole through the centre.
A beautiful seal with complete brownish calcified surfaces.
Size: ca. 28 mm. tall, 21 mm. wide.
Co...
Large pale green Djed pillar amulet with high shaft and four horizontal bars. Delicate ropes delineated around the shaft immediately below the lowest bar.
The narrow column on the back is not pierced.
The Djed pillar amulet was connoted with stability and endurance and supposed to confer these qualities to the deceased.
The amulet was placed for magical protection over the throat of the deceased on the day of burial. The used green colored material stands for new live and r...
Material: faience
Size: - ca. 3,5 cm c. 1,38 inches
Condition: look picture and video
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A lovely rectangular stamp seal with a stylized bird handle, North-West Mesopotamia, 2nd. mill. BC.
The base particularly well-engraved for the stone type and period, with two animals in flight.
Size: 22 mm. long and 16 mm. wide and 17 mm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine, nice patina.
This seal was aquired 1995 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer ...
This marvelous piece of ancient pottery is an offering vessel, sometimes referred to as a "spirit jar", from roughly the Five Dynasties period (907-960 AD) of Classic Imperial China. These intriguing vessels first appeared to Western collectors around the turn of the century and were quite a delightful find. Appearing in the ruins of a long forgotten monastery near Kunming, hundreds of these jars were discovered in many sites in and around Yunnan. There are many styles of these offering vessels ...