Wonderful Halaf period Booth-shaped stamp seal in a glossy green hardstone (rare!), Syro-Levantine part of Mesopotamia, probably 6th. mill. BC.
A pre-historic / Neolithic seal carved with a fine grit pattern in the base and shape like a boot or foot.
Size: 10 mm. wide and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: About Extremely fine.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1991...
An exceptional earthenware bowl with incised decoration in a white slip and painted in green and manganese in a yellowish glaze (Bamiyan type), afghanistan, 12th. century (Pre 1221 A.D.).
With carinated walls, pseudo-caligraphy and symethric decorations in high relief. As typical for the most boldest specimens, the green colours are sort of splashed on.
Size: 18 cm. in diameter, 8 cm...
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...
Carved in black stone with a winged deity between horned animals, fishes and a Scorpion, Kingdom of the Mitanni, 15th - 14th cent BC.
Finely composed and engraved in drill style.
Size: 19 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine.
Provenance: Old German collection of fine cylinder seals, Karl Müller, 1950-1977.
Interesting and unclassified blackstone button stamp seal, carved with cross and pellets, c. 4th. millenium BC.
Probably Mesopotamian or from ancient near east, carved in quite high relief in a nice jet-black stone.
Size: 19-20 mm.
Condition: Near fine, the seal has a fine and intact imprint, with an ancient loss / damage to the upperside of the seal over the loop, which is also intact.
A choice and X-large tanged bronze lance, Ancient Near East, 1200-800 BC. 'Luristan' Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan bronze age.
A very impressive and decorative bronze lance with a long, bent tang, and a broad, leaf-shaped blade with highly profiled midrib.
A beautiful lance that would have been highly efficient on combat.
Size: c. 40 cm. long.
Condition: Nice Very fine. Beautiful green and red bronze patina. Some roughness to the edges.
Ex...
A fine depiction of a Mesopotamian Cylinder seal in black stone, Neo-Assyrian Epire, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.
The seal is carved with the enthroned Great King or Ashur himself seated, drinking from a cup in front of a table with a large wine amphora or vase. Behind the table there's a standing attendant with a Fan.Crescent and star symbols in the fields.
Size: 26 x 12 mm...
BRONZE SPIKE-BUTTED AXE-HEAD
PERSIAN, IRON AGE, 1200 – 1000 BC
Dimensions:
Length: 19.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Height on stand: 17 cm
Very good condition with beautiful patina
Nicely set of an acrylic “Plexi-glass” display stand
Complete and intact with earthy encrustations around the shaft, one spike slightly bent.
Cast using the lost wax method; a spike-butted axehead, the short, cylindrical shaft tube with three cords across each side, lead...
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...
A high quality intaglio, large for type and carved in an even coloured transperant carnelian stone, probably MUGHAL/SAFAVID, 16th.-17th. century AD.
Rather complicated oval cartouche, carved with artful caligraphic arabic within a double border.
Size: c. 21 mm. long and almost 6 mm. thick.
Condition: Extremely fine, completely intact with inky deposits.
Ex. L.P. Niederrhein, aquired before 1980.
A scarce and interesting Cylinder-stamp, found around Antiochia, probably, dating around 2nd. mill. BC, though the collectors dated this seal much earlier (see picture of his ID-cards)...
A rare and elaborate bronze battle axe, Late bronze age or early Ironage, Pontic–Caspian steppe ca. 1200-800 BC.
A finely made late bronzeage axe that combines stylistical elements of the Indo-European nomadic style with the Indo-Iranian style.
A com pact axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and small dots and a small deadly blade. The full axe is shaped like a stylized birds head.
Size: 9 cm.
Ex...
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...
A FINE BRONZE SHORT SWORD BLADE WITH MEDIUM LONG TANG, WESTERN ASIA, 1800-1400 BC.
An extremely fine condition tanged bronze short sword with proniment shoulders and a blade with a diamondshaped crosssection. Commonly termed 'Luristani' by collectors, but from the broader Western Asia area.
Size: 36 cm.
Condition: Superb for type, wonderful smooth dark green patina.
Hand modeled biconical vase with cream ground and red to dark brown decoration.
The body with groups of chevrons starting from a star-shaped pattern on the bottom. The narrow neck with a band of converging zig-zag patterns.
The globular body elongates laterally into pointed knob handles. Standing on a gently rounded base, vase slightly askew in appearance.
Shape and decoration are consistent with painted Hacilar I pottery ware.
For the shape, cf. fig. 140,7, pp. 412-...
A large 'Luristani' bronze battle adze, South Caspian Sea type (Eastern region), 2nd. millenium BC.
An elaborate type with a long slender adze blade tappering to a wider bit. Enforced rilled socket with openwork spikes. Terrific lines and symethri and a large size, combined with the fine enamel patina, makes this an exceptional specimen.
Size: c. 16 cm. long and c. 5 cm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine, a gem of an axe with enamel-like glossy dark green patina.
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A fine style amuletic seal, probably 3rd. millenium BC or even older Ubaid, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal is depicting a humanoid figure with his arms stretched out and an animal / Geomethric sun pattern. Top-drilled.
Size: 32 mm. tall and 23 mm. wide.
Condition: Good VF, intact with even light wear and overall nicely preserved.
Comes with hard impression and original ID-card from the collection. It was aquired in 2005.
Provenance: Gustav Oberl...
A beautiful seal carved in a dark serpentine. Finely polished oval base engraved with a Ram or stagg and a three in front.
Size: 12 mm. X 11,5 mm.
Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards. Comes with collectors own notes and photos mounted on filt with a hard wax impression.