An attractive large Phoenician bifacial stamp seal of a scaraboid form, dating to c. 800-600 BC.
The seal carved in grey-black stone and engraved with very nice archaic style images of Zoomorphic beasts incl. one with Human head and one with a Birds head.
Size: 21 mm. long and 19 mm. broad and 10 mm...
A fine condition larger scaraboid stamp seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, c. 1400-1100 BC.
The seal engraved with an interesting zoomorphic Griffin like creature with.
The seal is carved and highly polished to it's scaraboid shape in a fine greenish black stone.
Size: 21 mm. long and 18 mm wide, 12 mm...
Rare antique Persian Kubachi ware bowl or charger featuring two peacocks in a garden and racing horses on its outer rim. Heavy cracquelure as expected in such a piece. 15 1/2" in diameter and 3" deep.
A wonderful massive seal with fine engravings, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
With the almost square seal plate and the type of handle this seal is the proto-type of the later Neo-Hittite seals, but this one much earlier. The base engraved with a large Deer with large Antler and on top, a smaller stag or horned animal, and a 3rd. animal in the corner, perhaps a hunting dog.
Size: 23 mm. x 22 mm. and 15 mm...
A fine large black serpentine stamp seal of scarce round form, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
The seal is carved with a fine angled cross motif with triangular forms (arrow-points or wedges) in each field, all a high relief. It has a low pierced handle on the back.
Diameter: 31 mm. and 10 mm...
Highly interesting scaraboid seal of the earliest style and type we've seen, probably inspired by Egyptian scarab seals, Middle bronze age of the Levant, c. 2200-1600 BC.
The seal is very large and carved in a greenish black stone. Interestingly, there's remnants of the metal mount, probably a chain in iron or bronze (looks like iron!). The seal is carved with Capride with a bird above...
A finely made flat tablet seal with a fine cruciform carving on one side, the other blank, probably pre- or early Hittite.
Fine style carving, described by Oberländer as c. 1000 BC, we believe it must be a lot earlier than that.
Size: 28 mm. long and 22 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick. mm. in diameter and 17 mm...
A very interesting, large and thick block-shaped seal in black serpentine, Mesopotamian, c. 3rd. mill...
A huge round Uruk type of stamp seal, but from Western Mesopotamia or North-Eastern Anatolia, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Fine style carving in high relief of a capride with large horns, Spear-point symbol before.
Size: 38 mm. in diameter and 17 mm. thick.
Condition: Choice VF for type, some wear and uncleaned patina.
This seal was aquired 2004 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav OberlĂ...
A fine Mesopotamian stone cylinder seal 4th.-3th. millenium BC.
The seal in hard black stone engraved with nice looking animals with two heads.
Size: 19 mm. tall and 12 mm thick.
Condition: Choice 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 reputabl...
Interesting and very attractive cylinder seal of an unusually large size, even for the Assyrian cylinders, c. 16th-12th. century BC.
The seal made of sandstone or ceramics and finely carved in deep relief. The motif is a large horned animal walking, above the symbols of the sun and moon god, the Tree of Life before.
Size: 39 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.
Condition: Choice VF for type, some wear and patina.
This seal was aquired 1990 and comes with hard ...
An interesting a rare cylinder seal in bronze, Eastern Mesopotamia / Greater Persia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.
A very attractive cylinder carved with animals walking on a decorated border below.
Size: 35-36 mm. tall and c. 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Good Very fine, nice light green patina.
Comes with hard impression and COA.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, boug...
A very interesting and uncleaned metal seal in bronze or a silver alloy, Mesopotamia, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
Finely engraved with dots in a symethric pattern.
Size: 19-20 mm. tall and 9 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine or better. Uncleaned with lots of dirt in the devices, so this will improve a whole lot when cleaned.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1...
An attractive and interesting cylinder seal of white stone, Anatolian, c. early 2nd. mill. BC.
The seal finely carved with a hunting scene; Humanoid figure standing with spear and bow before a wild animal.
Size: 26 mm. tall. and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: Choice VF, small chip at the top.
This seal was aquired 2007 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer ...
Interesting cylinder seal in black stone, Anatolia, Hittite Empire c. early-mid 2nd. millenium BC.
A fine carving of different animals in a charming later Anatolian style.
Size: 25 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with ancient wear and patina.
This seal was aquired 1990. It comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his mass...
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 finely engraved larger stone stamp seal of the hemispheric seal, popular in the Uruk period. The seal in engraved with a pattern that could look like an insect or the head of an insect. Very elaborate.
Size: 26 mm. in diameter and 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF, small nick and uncleaned deposits, quite attractive.
This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (192...
A large round stamp seal with a rare depiction engraved in the base, Mesopotamian 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
The seal is engraved with a Capride springing in the forrest as if in flight, struck and pierced through by two spears. The seal is carved in stone with a small handle.
Size: 28 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Nice VF, some tiny chips and deposits, but quite attractive.
This seal was aquired 2008 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from bel...