Interesting stamp seal, rectangular and carved in a beige stone, depicting a bird below some lines, Western Mesopotamia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
Size: c. 28 mm. long.
Condition: About Very fine.
The seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Interesting North-Mesopotamian type and probably from the Halaf period, although the round shape is rare for this period, we date this 6th.-4th. millenium BC.
Size: 27 mm. in diameter - a substantial seal.
Condition: Very fine, with the top the handle lost to extensive use, othervise attractive...
A thick early cylinder seal in white-yellow marple, carved with the 'eye' or circle/rhomboid form - a characteristic and significant design for the Period.
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...
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.
Condition: Extremely fine, highly attractive. Nice patina with deposits...
Nice geomethric design stamp seal, carved in black stone, Eastern most Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th.-5th. millenium BC.
The seal carved with a stringent grit-pattern and low pierced handle on the back, almost square.
Size: c. 17-18 mm...
Interesting conoid shaped stamp seal in black stone, probably serpentine, engraved on the base with a deer with large antlers and on the upperside with unidentified engravings. Greater Mesopotamia area and porabably from the Ubaid/Urum period 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Super nice stylized engraving of the deer! There's certainly some engravings on the upperside as well but uncleaned and unresearched.
Size: 255 mm. in diameter and c. 18 mm...
Very attractive rectangular stamp seal with elaborate rilled handle, Post-Hittite states of West-Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia, later 2nd. mill. BC.
The seal carved with a winged animal.
Size: 19 mm. wide and 17 mm. thick, 13 mm. tall.
Condition: Choice Very fine, intact and with fine patina and much deposits. This seal has potential when manually cleaned for dirt...
A fine stamp seal in a lovely stone quality, East Anatolia / West Mesopotamia, c. later 2nd. millenium BC.
Splendid and mottled & veined green stone engraved with a Lion and triangular spearpont-like symbols...
A choice and attractive stamp seal of the late Ubaid period in black serpentine, Northern Mesopotamia, c. 5th.-4th. mill. BC.
Round and thick with a low handle and a complicated cruciform with angles engraved in the base.
Size: 22 in diameter x 15 mm. tall.
Comes with the original collection Id-card and imprint.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable...
A large round or oval black stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal engraved with a 4-legged animal and with a bird above.
Size: 31 mm. x 29 mm and 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, intact with much even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
Lovely hemispheric stamp seal with Capride, black stone, Anatolia, c. 4th. mill. BC.
Fine deep relief and quite attractive!
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 12 mm. tall.
Condition: Good VF.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and fr...
A very large black stone stamp seal with high relief engraving, Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC. According to notes from the collection, this seal was found in Tell Halaf!
High relief carving of cruciform pattern.
Size: 32 mm. in diameter and 19 mm. tall, so a high domed seal, really large in hand.
Condition: Extremely fine, uncleaned deposits, very attractive.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard imp...
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.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection betw...
A beautiful and scarce stone stamp seal, carved in black serpentine with a high handle, Western Asia, Hittite period, 2nd. millenium BC.
Triangular seal plate, engraved with what looks to be a sort of script or symbols, looks almost Egyptian in the style, but we're not certain and it should be researched some more. Finely made knob handle with piercing
Length: 27 mm. height c. 12 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine. Even smooth wear and exceptional patina, a really nic...
A fine large oval stamp seal in green black stone, Uruk period, later 4th. mill. BC.
The seal is carved with a wonderful image of 6 centopedes in high relief, drilled horisontically.
Size: 37 mm. long.
Condition: Very Fine, with loss to small part of the
but leaving the design almost intact.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from ...
A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in West Mesopotamia and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.
Hemispheric stamp seal with a low handle and a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: Near Extremely fine, choice and with fine patina.
This seal was aquired 2008 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: G...
A large gable seal carved in black stone with a Geomethric leaf pattern under the base, Western Mesopotamia, 5th. mill. BC. A very early seal of the gable type.
Size: 36 mm long and 23 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edge.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2002. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his ma...
A substantial and nicely carved stamp seal in a black serpentine stone, carved as a tall pyramid, North-West Mesopotamian city states, after the colapse of the Hittite Empire, late 2nd.- Early 1st. millenium BC.
Highly iteresting seal carving of the base, which is probably an animal standing on another larger animal (or podium) within a dotted frame (?) It needs cleaning and more research! The seal itself is carved with incised lines and grit-patterns, which is probably mere decoratio...