A nice early cylinder seal in cream stone, Greater Mesopotamia, early 2nd. mill. BC.
Size: 23 mm. long.
Ex. Old German Private Collection.
A fine hardstone cyliner seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, 1363-912 BC.
The seal is carved in a matte-black stone and depicts a hunting scene with the great bending to shoot an arrow against a 4-legged animal, crescent above.
Size: 26-27 mm. tall and 11 mm. thick.
Condition: VF, intact with some wear and fine patination and micro deposits.
Ex. German Private Collection
A nice larger stone seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, 1363-912 BC.
The seal is carved in a jet black stone, and depicts a crowded array of a human, animals and symbols, (bad roll-out, the seal is sharper).
Size: 28-29 mm. tall and 14 mm. thick.
Condition: VF, intact with fine patination and micro deposits.
Ex. German Private Collection
A fine thick cylinder seal carved in green-black stone, Old Assyrian Empire, local Levantine provincial style, Early 2nd. millenium BC.
Relatively large and attractive seal engraved with a running man or deity, a horned animal and a palmtree, crescent above.
Size: 23 mm. x 14 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine and intact with deposits and patina.
Ex. German Private Collection
A lovely stamp seal uncleaned and as found, still with dirt in the devices and with uncleaned deposits! Round seal engraved in the base with a Cruciform design and pierced through, Mesopotamian, Late Ubad- Early Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
Size: 20 mm.
Condition: Good Very fine, small gauge at the back, othervise intact and with great cleaning potential...
A very impressive large stone seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, 1363-912 BC.
The seal is carved in a superb green-brown stone, very glossy and depicts a human or deity with a Palm-tree and a Goat, crescent above.
Size: 36 mm. tall and 11 mm. thick.
Condition: EF, completely intact with fine patination and micro deposits.
Ex. German Private Collection
A fine and impressive large stoned seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, 1363-912 BC.
The seal carved with a stylized hunting-scene with armed men and animals.
Size: 30 mm. tall and 13 mm. thick.
Condition: EF, completely intact with fine patination and micro deposits.
Ex. German Private Collection
An interesting gable stamp seal with the Zig-zag engraving that has been interpreted by scolars in seals as an early representation of a Scorpio, Anatolia or Syria, c. 4th. millenium BC.
Finely polished and engraved, rectangular with a clear gable form. Drilled.
Size: 21 x 19 mm...
A choice collection of unresearched stamp seals, all with different designs, c. 6th.-3rd. millenium BC.
The small collection includes seals carved in a variety of stones; there's a gable seal from the 4th. millenium, several early rectangular seals with cross patterns, some with grit-patterns and a couple of later stone seals, one with a 'sun' pattern, probably from the Persian hemisphere.
Size: Up to 2 cm...
Interesting and quite rare light brown stone cylinder seal, Early 3rd. millenium BC.
A beautiful and highly concave cylinder seal carved with long centripeds! The seal dates to the 3rd. milleniun BC - Pre-Early Dynastic. Finely carved and high attractive!
Size: 22 x 16 mm...
Lot of three very attractive and massive Sasanian stamp seals in beautiful stones, all with engravings relative to the Gilgamesh myth in low relief, 3th.-6th. cent. AD.
A nice lot that we bundle to safe listing time!
Diameter: 30, 31 and 26 mm.!
Condition: Fine to Very Fine.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Interesting stamp seal in a greenish black stone, Anatolia, Neo Hittite states of the late 2nd.-early 1st. millenium BC.
The seal with high pierced handle and oval base, engraved with what appears to be scriptsigns, perhaps Luwian, we're not experts in these.
Size: 22 mm tall and quite massive...
Fine larger figural stone stamp seal of Anatolia or Northern Syria, Ubaid-Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
Nice carving in an attractive black serpentine stone, with the typical 'gable' handle, so popular in the Ubaid/Uruk period of Anatolia and Syria.
Size: c. 30 mm...
Interesting and rare gable seal in a scarce oval form and lovely dark red jasper stone, depicting 4-legged animal, probably feline, Levantine or Anatolian 4th. millenium BC.
A very attractive archaic carving and large for the Jasper stone used.
Size: 30 mm...
One more of the fine large stamp seals from the Oberländer collection. A rare rendering in fine style, Parthia or early Sasanian, 1st.-4th. century AD.
The seal is carved in a beautiful milky-white and agate. The carving shows a seated female, perhaps a woirshipper in fancy cloths.
Size c. 27-28 mm. wide and 22-23 mm...
Seal pendant or amulet, finely carved in a zoomorphic style, as a head of an animal, possibly made to ellude a pigs head, Mesopotamia, Uruk - Jemdet Nasr period, 3500-2900 BC.
A wonderful amulet with refined polished details and a nice archaic grit pattern in the base.
Size: 21-22 mm...
A large and rare stamp seal made in a superbly mottled black and white diorite stone, South Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jemdet Nasr period, 3300-2900 BC.
Domed hemispheric seal with a fine free carving in a drill style of multiple running animals.
Size: 35-36 mm. in diameter, quite large for this fine diorite seal.
Condition: Good Very fine, one ancient chips to the side and fine wear, but basically intact and highly attractive.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
A fine lot of 5 stone stamp seals of the hemispheric or button-shape in different kind of stones incl. serpentine and chlorite, North/west Mespotamian 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
The seal bases mainly engraved with different cruci- forms, but there's also a much earlier Halaf period seal in this lot.
Size: Up to c. 16-17 mm. in diameters
Condition: Mostly intact and very fine, one seal with a crack, another with smaller losses and wear.
Provenance: Gust...