Attractive and impressive large stamp seal, engraved with two horned animals, likely muflons, Anatolia 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
A large seal in a in a rectangular gable form, deeply engraved with a vivid motif in the black serpentine stone. Fine style for period.
Size: c. 40 mm. wide x 27 mm...
A fine condition square stamp seal in black stone, carved with a elaborate cross design, the seal a flat square, Ancient Near East, probably Luristan, 4th. mill. BC.
Szie: 20 mm. x 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, hard uncleaned earthern deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Attractive Bactrian bronze compartment seal, Late 3rd - Early 2nd Millennium BC. Simple design on the round base, tall handle.
Size: 18 mm. wide and 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, fine even wear and green deposits.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection
Provenance: Johan Dæhlfeldt Estate Collection - 40 years of collecting antiquities.
A massive sub-rectangular seal with high handle and perforation, in black large grained stone, Halaf period, 6th. millenium BC.
The seal is beautifully engraved with a leaf design with a central line and diagonal strokes off it.
Size: 38-39 mm...
A wonderful large round stone seal with loop at the back and a fine square cross-line design on the seal, Mesopotamia, 6th.-5th. millenium BC.
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Nice VF, some wear, especially to the loop from ancient use.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A very large and scarce round gable stamp seal in black serpentine stone, Anatolia, c. 4th. millenium BC.
The fine seal with central drilling and carved with an animal on the base.
Size: 35 mm...
A massive and highly attractive bronze ring with winged horse and rabbit(?) below, Parthian Empire, 247 BC - 224 AD.
A deeply engraved oval bezel and oval ring ring with broad shoulders.
Ring-Size: 53-54 - male size with inner diameter of c. 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine for type, sound metal, wearable with a nice olive patina.
A fine bronze seal ring, Sasanian, c. 3rd.-6th. cent. AD.
With wide shoulders and oval seal bezel, engraved seal depicting a horse with symbols(?) above.
A better ring and fully wearable.
Size: 19 mm. (inner-diameter)
Condition: Nice VF, redish and green patina.
Provenance: Collection of Gert Cleff, Wuppertal, and ex Münzzentrum Rheinland, Solingen Auction 121, 2004.
A choice and beautiful red carnelian Cylinder seal, dating to the Achaemenid Empire, 7th.-4th. century BC.
Finely carved and polished barrel-shaped, carved with two animals at the sides of a tree. The clay impression, we made is not the best, but the seal is really sharp and attractive in hand.
Size: 19-20 mm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Provenance: Gert Cleff, Wuppertal, aquired in 1989 at Kölner Münzkabinett Tyll Kroha
A nice early cylinder seal in white 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...
A very nice early cylinder seal in white marple, carved with a characterestic and significant geomethric design for the Period.
A nice thick cylinder in a high quality white marple stone!
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...
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...
A very large stamp seal in green-black stone depicting a horned animal, Anatolia 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
A late Gable seal type with an advanced rendering of the animal, that shows the Pre-Hittite or old hittite style. The large seal plate also leaves for the long tail and a crescent above.
Size: 45 mm. long and 33 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very Fine, with moderate ancient wear to the corners...
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...
A fine and substantial bronze stamp seal with tall handle and a round base, engraved with an interesting archaic image, Ancient Near East, likely Levantine, c. late 2nd.-1st. millenium BC...
A fine stamp seal in beige-brown stone, Levantine, c. 3rd. millenium BC.
The seal engraved with cross pattern.
Size: 20 mm.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.
A very large and superb carving in an rectangular gable form, Anatolia, later style of the 3rd.- millenium BC.
The seal carved in a light brown stone with mirrored horned animals with a star between their legs.
Size: 39 mm. x 35 mm.
Condition: Good Very Fine, some wear to the drilled hole at the back, othervise superb with a lovely orange brown patina!
Comes with the original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (192...
Attractive and impressive large stamp seal, engraved with an intriquing geomethric design, Anatolia or Mesopotamian, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Interesting design of the seal, floral or perhaps female fertility forms, deeply engraved in the black serpentine stone. Looks a bit like some of the designs during Jemdet Nasr, which could date this seal to around 3300-2900 BC
Size: c. 30 x 27 mm.
Condition: Choice VF, light wear to the edge but basically intact and attr...