All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484443
An interesting and scarce geomethric carving on an gable form stamp seal, found Near Antioch (Western Mesopotamia and present day easternmost Turkey), dating c. 4th. millenium BC or somewhat later.

Finely carved in greenish stone. Drill carved with stars!

Size: 28 x 18 mm. and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, uncleaned deposits but sharp!

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484442
An interesting and probably emblematic carving on a Bifacial rectangular seal, found Near Antioch (Western Mesopotamia and present day easternmost Turkey), dating c. 4th. millenium BC.

Finely carved in dark greenish stone.

Size: 18 x 12 mm. and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484441
A rare bone seal with a finely carved base, Western Mesopotamia, dating to the 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal in the rectangular gable form, carved with with two animals in the base.

Size: 25 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484334
A scaraboid stamp seal in black stone, made in the Assyrian client states in Western Mesopotamia, fine mid-Assyrian style, c. late 2nd. millenium BC.

Reportedly found near Antioch.

Winged Deity, probably Ashur tending the Tree of Life, interesting symbols. Stylized scarab carved in an attractive black stone.

Size: 22 mm. long and 20 mm. wide!

Condition: Extremely fine and with a nice patina and still with some sandy deposits...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484333
Wonderful birdhead-shaped stamp seal in a glossy green hardstone (rare!), Syro-Levantine part of Mesopotamia, probably 5th. mill. BC.

A pre-historic / Neolithic seal carved with a fine grit pattern in the base, the form of the seal itself as a stylized birds head.

Size: 28 mm. wide and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, small ancient scuff.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484264
A very attractive seal of an impressive size for a hemispheric stamp, Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Interesting Ubad-early Uruk stamp seal from Mesopotamia. The seal round with drilling to the back, quite flat and carved with geomethric lines.

Size: 31 mm. in dianeter - large for this type.

Condition: About Very fine, attractive with some even wear from extensive use.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484263
A very attractive stamp seal of the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, carved in a scaraboid / gable form, 3rd. mill. BC.

Substantial seal carved and finely polished in a beautiful diorite hardstone, very popular and scarce in antiquitiy and used extensively by the Egyptians. A black hardstone with white inclusions. The seal in the gable of scaraboid shape and with the preffered carvings of globular patterns of the Uruk period stamp seals of Mesopotamia...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484262
Interesting West Mesopotamian stamp seal, probably costal, catved in a nice beige stone with an animal and another smaller animal in the corner above, c. late 2nd. mill. BC.

Size: 15 x 14 mm and 7 mm. thick.

Condition: Very fine, intact.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collecti...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1484224
A fine Grecco -Persian bronze spearhead, later 1st mill BC.

The blade with slim shoulders and central midrib. The sharp edges of the blade slope into a long, folded conical socket with an opening at the back and a straight.

Size: 34,5 cm - socket is about 18 cm.

Condition: Choice - cleaned somewhat hard, but still with nice red and green patina, as shown on photos.

Ex Private Collection.



All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484202
A superb condition beige hardstone stamp seal, Cilicia / Levante, c. 1200-800 BC.

The seal expertly carved and polished into it's present perfect pyramidal shape and carved in the base with a bird. Beautiful stone used.

Size: 16 mm tall and 13 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2007. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), O...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484201
An early tabloid stone seal with a particularly vivid Sun symbol carved in the base, Mesopotamian 4th. mill. BC.

Attractive seal carved in grey-black stone and centrally drilled. Reportedly found near the ancient city of Antioch.

Size: 22 x 20 mm and 6 mm. thick.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484196
A choice larger stone stamp seal of the Tabloid type, North-West Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with three strange symbols in deep relief.

Size: 28 mm. long and 22 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, intact with fine even wear and patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484195
Interesting rectangular seal engraved on all 4 sides with human figures and stars, central drilling, North-West Mesopotamia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Size: 21 x 12 x 9 mm.

Condition: Very fine, some deposits and small ancient chip to a corner.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important colle...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484193
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. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aqu...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484192
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.

This seal is particular interesting, since it's really well carved completely symethric and with a lovely little round handle, engraved with a rel...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484190
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. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484189
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. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and attractive, a small chip to the edge of the base and...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484188
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. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collec...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1484178
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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484176
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. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gus...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484174
A very attractive seal carved in fine shell (see the endings), Mesopotamia, late 3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting depiction of 4 different deities standing.

Size: 26 mm. tall and 14 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice Very fine and basically intact, the seal is nice, the imprint not so much.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2005. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012),...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484029
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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484025
A superb cylinder seal in a rare material of Red Jasper for this period, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, c. 3300-3000 BC.

Sharp impression and attractive with both fishes and the 'eye'-symbol, which is typical of Jemdet Nasr.

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. Thes...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484024
Fine early stamp seal, Western Mesopotamia, Halaf to early Ubaid period, c. 6th.-5th. mill. BC.

Carved as a very stylized animal head, where the drilled hole is the 'eye', on the base simple Grit-pattern.

Size: 30 mm. wide and 16 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and intact with patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his ma...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1484023
Interesting intact amulethic seal in a fine semi-translucent green stone, rarely used for seals, Mesopotamia, probably costal region, 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.

A depiction of two mirrored Caprids in the base, drilled for suspension to the cord.

Size: 21 mm. wide and 14 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and intact with patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483989
A choice green stone stamp seal with fine archaic engravings of animals in the base, Late Ubaid-Uruk, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Fine knob handle and a round seal plate. The base engraved with a two animals. Scarce early piece!

Size: 21 mm. in diameter and 17 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, nice patina with even wear.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012),...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483987
An impressive seal with a finely carved base in an attractive white stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the slightly oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a horned animal and birds flying.

Size: 22 mm. by 20 mm. and 10 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483986
Interesting finely polished hardstone stamp seal of an early hemispheric form, late 1st. millenium BC.

The seal particularly finely polished and carved in the base with a bird.

Size: 22 mm. wide, 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, completely intact with low relief engraving.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483980
Another interesting larger stamp in fine calchedony, quaranteed ancient.

Size: 22 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide.

Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483962
An finely preserved large triangular stamp seal with knob handle in a jet black stone, Western Mesopotamia, probably c. 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.

Large for type and with a deep relief engraving of animals and with other symbols etc in the fields.

Size: About 29 mm. wide - 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact, some even wear.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483959
A very attractive stamp seal in a red brown glossy stone and a small perforated handle, Mesopotamia Uruk period, probably 3rd. millenium BC.

Finely engraved in the base with several animals!

Size: 24 mm. wide (diameter) and 14 mm. tall.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, b...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483957
Interesting seal with a long handle and rectangular base, Western Mesopotamian, Ubaid of the 5th. mill. BC.

Finely made grit pattern at the base and quite scarce as a type.

Size: 22 mm. long and 14 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, some cleanable deposits.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483955
Interesting and very attractive black stone stamp seal with two sides, of the Anatolian type, probably close to Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal carved with horned animal on one side and a swastika (sun-symbol in the Chalcolithic period) on the other.

Size: 19 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberlände...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483954
Attractive substantial stamp seal in black-greenish stone with handle Western Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Interestin base carved with three animals incl a large deer with antlers, a Scorpion above and a smaller animal at the rim.

Size: 21 mm. tall and 20 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, fine old patina!

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gu...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483953
Interesting larger stamp seals from the borderland between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, probably costal and carved in a blood red stone in the pyramidal shape, 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

The base in carved with Ubaid-Uruk period cross pattern with two pellets.

Size: 28 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his mass...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483950
A very rare tall Mesopotamian cylinder seal made in a fine shell type of material, Djemdet Nasr / early Dynastic cylinder seal with wavy line decor. About 3000 - 2750 BC.

A very attractive seal decorated in low relief with a sort of brocade pattern; our clay did stick a bit, so it would be possible to make a better imprint of this.

Size: 39 mm tall!

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collec...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483935
Interesting very tall cone-shaped seal, West-Mesopotamian, probably Halaf-Ubaid, c. 6th.-5th. mill. BC.

The seal is engraved with a beautiful symethric and sharp grit-pattern in a redish brown sandstone.

Size: 35 mm. tall and 12 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputabl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483862
A finely carved cylinder seal in black stone engraved with a scene of worshippers or deities making offers, Neo-Assyrian, c. 9th.-8th. century BC.

Very detailed carving with shows the deities on either side of the tree of life and a vessel on a small stair or table, perhaps an alter. Crescent and star above.

Size: 22 mm. tall.

Provenance: Old German collection of fine cylinder seals, Karl Müller, 1950-1977.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483829
An impressive triangular stamp seal with knob handle in a creamy white stone, Western Mesopotamia, probably c. 3rd. millenium BC.

Extremely large for type and with a deep relief engraving of an animal and with other symbols etc in the fields.

Size: About 40 mm. on each side! - 16 mm. tall. Surely the largest we've had or even seen of the type.

Condition: Very fine, a minor chip to one corner and some even wear, not affecting the base depiction.

Added ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Pre AD 1000 item #1483828
A collection of 7 ancient beads, incl. massive early trailed beads from late Achaemenid to the Islamic period of the Ancient Near East, c. 4th. cent. BC- 8th cent. AD Three beads are very large, the 4 other beads are medium size to smaller. The largest bead is c. 32 mm. wide and massive. The smallest c. 13 mm. To be researched and should resell individually for more than $100 each!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483797
Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in a semi-translucent hardstone, probably Quartz, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.

Impressive size in hand in a beautiful stone, scarce!

Size: 22 mm tall and 20 mm. thick!

Condition: Good very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483781
A nice scaraboid stone seal carved in serpentine, Western Mesopotamia, c. early-mid 2nd. mill. BC.

The scaraboid is engraved with a high relief carving of a man standing with outstretched arms and a tree in each hand. Quite unusual.

Size: 20 mm. by 16 mm. and 8 mm. tall.

Condition: Good very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlä...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483779
An attractive and scarce oval stamp seal carved with an animal inside a border and symbols, Early Hittite, 2nd. mill. BC.

Carved in greyish green stone, quite nice.

Size: 22 mm. long and 18 mm. wide, 10-11 mm tall.



Condition: Nice very fine, intact with slight wear.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massi...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Pre AD 1000 item #1483777
A rare bone seal with a finely carved base, Western Mesopotamia, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a a pair of goats heads and it's probably made by the Hattites / early Hittite people.

Size: 25 mm. by 22 mm. and 9 mm. tall.

Condition: Fine, intact with hairline cracks. Typical damage with this seal material and to have it at all is actually quite a miracle given the 400...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483776
A finely carved seal in an attractive beige stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the round gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a horned animal.

Size: 20 mm. in diameter and 8 mm. tall.

Condition: About extremely fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquir...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483775
Finely carved larger stone scaraboid with winged lion, Middle Assyrian, c. 14th.-12th. cent. BC.

The seal unusually detailed and carved in a black stone, probably serpentine.

Size: 20 x 19 mm. and 9 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, small ancient chip to the head and some uncleaned deposits.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlände...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483773
An impressive seal with a finely carved base in an attractive stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a deer with large antlers attacked by a feline and rearing it's head, screaming in agony or fear!

Size: 25 mm. by 22 mm. and 9 mm. tall.

Condition: Near extremely fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below col...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1483752
Interesting bronze seal of a cone shape with a small top without drill, Western Mesopotamia / Lake Van area, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

First time in stock for this type with is also decorated on the sides with a figure?.

Size: 19 mm. tall and 16 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, needs more manual cleaning.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlän...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483751
An interesting choice of a mottled glossy green stone with inclusions ffor a stamp seal, West-Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

Lovely colour with a round base engraved with an image of a horse. Size: 16 mm. tall and 15 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice VF and intact with a natural striation line in the midsection and some deposits.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (19...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483750
Interesting stamp seal from the Urartu Kingdom of the bell-shaped type, in translucent Alabaster, very attractive! Seal is carved with a complicated pattern.

Size: 16 mm. tall. and 9 mm. wide.

Condition: Near Very fine, small loss to one side of the loop..

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection bet...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483708
An attractive Uruk Zoomorphic stamp seal pendant, c. late 4th.-early 3rd. millenium BC.

The seal carved in a wonderful transperant stone and depicts an animal rearing it's head. The base carved with a Grit pattern and central piercing.

Size: 20 mm. tall and 19 mm. wide. A substantial amulet-seal for the period.

Condition: Good Very fine, tiny chip at one side of the head othervise completely intact with nice patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483703
A fine scaraboid stamp seal, clearly inspired by New Kingdom Egyptian scaraboids, East Anatolia / West Mesopotamia, c. 15th.-12th. cent. BC

The scarab shows a fierce creature reclining right.

Size: 20 mm. long and 15 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with redish deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), OberlÃ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483702
A lovely and rare stamp seal depicting two horned animals mating, West-Mesopotamia, c. 2nd.-1st. mill. BC.

The seal is exceptionally well-carved for the type with a four-side and pierced handle atop of the rectangular base. The stone is even dark green. Rare depiction!

Size: 22 x 19 mm. and 13,5 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine for the type.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483588
A really nice and impressive stamp seal wuth a tall handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal is inspired by early Assyrian iconography and shows a finely carved Lion on it's hind legs grapping or fighting a monster with multible legs - here the Lion is probably the king or leading god, while the Lizzard creature is the evil one.

Size: c. 20 mm. wide and 20 mm. tall.

Condition: Near Extremely fine.

Comes with hard imprint!

Pro...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1483584
Attractive and interesting bronze seal where a Lion is fighting a Bull with long horns, Neo-Babylonian c. 8th.-6th. century BC.

The seal is round and looks to have been made without handle or drill.

Size: 17 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Very fine, intact with much patina!

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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483574
Nice scarab shaped seal carved in black serpentine stone, Western Mesopotamia, c. mid 2nd. millenium BC.

Stylized scarab or scaraboid, engraved with demon-looking humanoid walking, probably a deity of sorts.

Size: 14 mm. x 12 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aqu...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1483553
A nice pair of ancient Near East Bronze javelins / spear points. Likely Neo-Elamite, dating to around 1200-800 BC.

Commonly called 'Luristani' by dealers and collectors. Both with tangs, prominent central midribs. Both have incised criss cross patterns near the bottom of the blades on ones side.

Size: c. 14 & 15,5 cm - c. 5,5-6 inches.

Condition: Choice with some roughness. Nice patinas & good metal.

Ex. Danish Private collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483527
Interesting and unusual small stamp with a beautiful symethric engraving, Post-Hittite states of Western Mesopotamia, c. early 1st. millenium BC.

Size: 11 x 10,5 mm.

Condition: Extremely fine, attractive patinated Hematite.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals betw...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483511
A banded agate stone seal, polished to a perfect oval scaraboid shape with a slightly pointed center, Neo-Babylonian, c. 8th-6th. century BC.

The stone with particularly nice patterns of multi-layered bands. On the base it's carved with a worshipping priest standing before the alter of the principal deity Marduk.

Size: 20 mm. long and 17 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine, signs of light ancient use and gloss with wear around the edges of the horisontical pierc...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1483482
Interesting and rare depiction of a woman and three men standing side by side on this slightly oval stamp which is probably a stylized scarab form with curved upperside. Carved in green stone with a faint cross on the back. The seal can probably be dating to the 3rd.-early 2nd. millenium BC.

Size: 22 mm x 20 mm. and 11 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection a...