Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in marble or another calsite glossy stone, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.
Impressive size in hand in a beautiful stone, scarce!
Size: 17 mm tall and 15 mm...
A fine and rare late Pre-Dynastic / Late Jemdet Nasr period, Mesopotamian Cylinder seal of translucent Alabaster, early 3rd. millenium BC.
The seal carved in high relief with a fine rendering of centipedes.
Size: 28 mm. tall and c. 15 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, old loss at one side, othervise extremely fine. Nice patina and attractive...
An interesting and rare stamp seal of a triangular form with a carved base and loop, Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal is particularly finely engraved with a horned animal and some interesting 'glyphs' in a freese above. With Egyptian inspiration and probably from the Middle Assyrian period, made close to the Egypt border.
Size: 14 x 11 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine...
Interesting and very large early stamp seal in serpentine stone, dating to the late neolithic period of Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th. mill. BC.
Finding place: Ebene at the Orontes.
The rectangular seal carved with a grit-pattern and with medium tall ridged and pierced handle on the back.
Size: 38 mm. long andd 24 mm. wide, 18 mm...
Interesting early stamp seal in serpentine stone, dating to the late neolithic period of Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th. mill. BC.
Finding place: Ebene at the Orontes.
The almost square seal carved with a grit-pattern and with a low worn handle on the back, finely polished.
Size: c. 31-29 mm...
Interesting stamp seal of a very large size and depicting a horse, found place border area between Mesopotamia and Anatolia, Antiocheia, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
A rare sizeable depiction of a horse from this period.
Size: 35 mm. in diameter and 8 mm...
Interesting and massive stamp seal in fossilized shell or the like, and carved with a large capride with long horns on the base. Hemispheric shape and drill-carving of the later Uruk period, c. 3300-2800 BC.
Very attractive and impressive in the rough shell material, quite dense and heavy.
Size: 40 mm. in diameter and 17 mm...
Interesting seal that needs more research. Carved with a nice framed carving depicting a capride, horned animal eating a plant! Syro-Anatolian area of Western Mesopotamia. Found place given as Amúg Ebene near Antiocheia.
Size: 19 x 18 mm.
Condition: Near Very fine, the seal itself Exremely fine and very sharp but the seal lost it's handle due to wear.
Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Obe...
A very interesting and rare early amulet seal, carved with archaic patterns and drill tecnique of the 6th.-5th. millenium BC, Mesopotamia.
The amulet in dark green stone is very rare and shaped almost like an insict carved on each broadside with 6 globules within a gritpattern and a typical Halaf gritpattern on the small side. Loop probably lost to wear in antiquity so a new hole was made drilling one globule through.
Size: 24 mm. long and 12 mm. wide.
Conditio...
Interesting and rarely seen example of the Quatrefoil stone stamp seal group, Eastern Anatolia, Halaf period, c. 6th.-5th.- mill. BC.
An early but still quite elaborate small stamp seal, carved with a small cross inside the larger.
Size: 13 mm. x 13 mm., 6 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF, intact with patina.
Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impo...
Seal seal carved like a fruit or a flower pot and on the base an engraved cross, loop at the top. carved in brownish stone, finely polished. Western Mesopotamia, probably 4th.-3rd. mill. BC
Size: 25 mm. X 18 mm.
Condition: Near Extremely Fine.
Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from ...
Very rare smaller stamp seal with the handle carved as a stylized animal head and the seal base into three round compartements, each containing an animal, Western Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.
Size: 15 mm. tall and 13 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine.
Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable deale...
Finely carved stamp seal with elaborate handle, Neo-Hittite states of the Levante, c. 1200-900 BC.
The seal depicts a horse moving right with another animal above. Scarce representation of a horse for Mesopotamia.
Size: 14 x 13 mm. and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: EF. Much redish deposits and will improve when cleaned.
Comes with imprint and ID-cards from below collection, made by the collector.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aqu...
A scarce very early and substantial stamp seal from the Pre-/early Halaf period of Western Mesopotamia c. 6th. mill. BC.
Assymethrical design, finely carved in a black stone with a medium tall handle, and carved with an interesting web-pattern in the base.
Size: 28 mm x 25 mm. and 14 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF, some wear but overall nicely preserved, uncleaned deposits.
Comes with hard impression and original ID-card from the collection. It was aquir...
Interesting West-Mesopotamian stamp seal, bifacial amuletic type, Uruk period c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
The drill-carved seal with human and animal on either side. Quite attractive!
Size: 20 x 17mm.
Condition: Good Very fine.
Comes with ID card and imprint.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Ober...
Attractive seal carved in the hemispheric-dome shape in a greenish-black hardstone, Early Achaemenid c. 7th.-5th. cent BC.
The seal engraved in the base with a fancy bird, probably a Peacock, which was a much favored bird among the Persians.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Size: 16 x 15 mm.
Comes with the original collection Id-card and imprint.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection ...
A very rare western Mesopotamian scaraboid seal with an engraving of a seated king on Throne holding his sceptre as a sign of his status, Western Mesopotamia, 2nd. mill. BC.
Attractive translucent stone, rarely seen as a material for early period scaraboids. Finely polished with curving sides in a peculiar squarish shape. Quite nicely engraved motif, better than the imprint indicates. On the back faint enhgraving of cross.
Condition: Nice VF or better, intact with fine pati...
Interesting lot of attractive seals and including a large amulet, Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. mill. BC.
The amulet polished smooth in an nice green stone rectangular with a pierced handle and a piercing in the middle as well. The seals engraved with criss-cross and animals.
Size: The amulet measure 36 mm. as the largest.
These seals/amulet comes with ID-cards from below collection, made by the collector.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlände...