Interesting and rare choice of an orange stone for a tabloid seal, North-West Mesopotamia, Uruk, 2nd. half of 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with a basket shape with a heering pattern, pierced.

Size: 20 x 19 mm.

Condition: Choice Very fine, some wear and deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...

A fine quality stamp seal with carved handle and a square seal base, probalbly no earlier than 2nd. mill. BC.

The image of a demon walking is a depiction that is known in Anatolia from the late Uruk period in the late 4th. mill. and especially during the 3rd. mill. BC. We've handled a small handful of such seals over the years...

A very nice bifacial stone stamp seal of the Tabloid type, North-West Mesopotamia, Uruk, 2nd. half of 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with two angle field and framed crosses.

Size: 18 x 14 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...

A lovely large Assyro-Babylonian stamp seal with a particlarly interesting shape, carved of fine smoky grey calchedony, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

The scaraboid is carved almost like an oval hat with a pointy raised center and sides tappering inwards. The engraving on the base is of a large seated winged animal in the drill style.

Size: 22 mm. long and 19 mm. wide. c. 12 mm...

Very attractive and well-carved hemispheroid seal in a greenish black chlorite stone, Mespotamian, c. 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

Low button-shaped seal with elegant Cruciform engraving and cenytral pellet.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006...

A choice Ancient Near East / Luristani tanged bronze dagger, dating to the 2nd mill. BC.

The dagger with high shoulders, short tang and the blade with central midrib.

Size: 24,9 cm.

Condition: Choice, a nice dagger with good metal. Some chips to the edge.

Ex. Private collection formed in the 1990's.

Attractive oval stamp seal, almost the shape of a scaraboid but much older belonging to the Uruk period of North-Western Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with an interesting motif of integrated animals (see Id card for a description.

Size: 25 mm. long and 19 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...

A very attractive seal carved in fine shell (see the endings), Mesopotamia, late 3rd...

Hor or Hori Worker – Hr.i (3)

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Hori, Hory

The name means ‘Horus’

God’s servant of Amen-Re, the king of the gods, God’s servant of Anubis and Khonsu, God’s servant of Hathor, mistress of the valley of Thebes, God’s servant of Seth of Sepemerou, God’s father of Mut, God’s father of Khonsu, God’s servant of Khonsu and Sobek, God’s servant of Amen-Re lord ...

Rare Egyptian pottery jar or beaker, NAQADA I - II, c. 4000 - 3200 BC.

Attractive conical jar in fine hardburnt redish and darker pottery.

Size: 9 cm. wide and 6,8 cm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, very small chips to rim nicely restored, small chip to the base. Pencil number from older collection on the side.

From French Collection, Ex Bonhams Auktion 23.10.2021, Lot 285. Ex Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941 - 1980.

Rare Egyptian pottery jar or beaker, NAQADA I - II, c. 4000 - 3200 BC.

Attractive conical jar in fine hardburnt redish and darker pottery.

Size: 6,8 cm. tall and 9 cm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, a couple of small chips to rim nicely restored, intact with no cracks. Pencil number from older collection on the side.

From French Collection, Ex Bonhams Auktion 23.10.2021, Lot 285. Ex Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941 - 1980.

Beautiful female head of a pillar figurine with sharply defined facial features. The elaborate hairdo is reminiscent of Egyptian wigs.
The woman shows beautiful almond-shaped eyes with neatly marked lids. The arched eyebrows span the entire forehead. The nose is gone, the lips are pressed to a gentle smile.
Elaborate style with much use of the modeling tool. Back side left raw.
Pillar figurines were prevalent in Judah during the First Temple period, ca. from 800 to 586 BC. T...

Human-headed Ba-bird with tripartite wig and false beard, the head surmounted by a disk.
The wings lean close to the body, the feet show powerful claws. The back is flat.
Superb made with much use of the modeling tool.
The Egyptian idea of the Ba conceives a free-soul (Freiseele, Exkursionsseele) capable of independent existence from the body. It thus leaves and reunites with the body at will. The Ba-bird is often depicted hovering over the deceased's mummy as well as leavi...

Terracotta figure of a seated baboon, animal sacred to Thot, the Egyptian god of writing and other intellectual pursuits.
Crisp facial features with pronounced supra-orbital ridges, deep set eyes and a dominant, protruding muzzle. The cheek fur and the upper body cape are typical for male baboons. The genitalia are exposed.
The dog faced baboon was a creature associated with the moon, as shown by the crescent moon and the disc on its head.
For a nice bronze example in the Pe...

A wonderful quality pottery Jug from Siegburg, Germany dating to the 16th. cent. AD.

A type called Trichterhalskrug in German, that often was made with an oval or round medallion at teh front. In this case the medallion is unusually crisp and elaborate for the type and depicts a coat of arms for a city or a wealthy House.

Size: 16 cm.

Condition: Good very fine for the often heavily restored type and age. Our specimen is completely intact but for a micro thin h...

Hor or Hori Worker – Hr.i

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Hori, Hory

The name means ‘Horus’

God’s servant of Amen-Re, the king of the gods, God’s servant of Anubis and Khonsu, God’s servant of Hathor, mistress of the valley of Thebes, God’s servant of Seth of Sepemerou, God’s father of Mut, God’s father of Khonsu, God’s servant of Khonsu and Sobek, God’s servant of Amen-Re lord of t...

Rare Egyptian pottery jar or beaker, NAQADA I - II, c. 4000 - 3200 BC.

Attractive conical jar in fine hardburnt redish and darker pottery.

Height: 9 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine and intact. With tag and number in pencil from older collections.

From French Collection, Ex Bonhams Auktion 23.10.2021, Lot 285. Ex Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941 - 1980.

A fine cylinder seal of a very large and thick size for type and carved depiction, Mesopotamia, somewhere around 3000 BC.

Nice symethric style in high relief within concenthric borders. The seal looks to be inspired by the style of the Jemdet Nasr, but to us the carving looks like there's an Archer is shooting a bow against an animal and another animal behind, highly stylized.

SizE: 30 mm. tall and c. 18 mm. wide, so the seal delivers a very long imprint.

Cond...