Ancient North Mesopotamian or Anatolian stamp seal of a oblong gable stype with rounded top, probably a late 4th.- early 3rd. millenium type of the Uruk period.
Very attractive large seal in smooth dark green chlorite and carved with a lovely style rampant Gazelle or Ibex with super long horns.
Size: 31 x 28 mm...
A huge and very impressive stamp seal of Northern Anatolia, Ubaid period, early 4th. mill. BC.
The base engraved with two horned animals with an arrow symbol behind the largest animal and a severed head between them, it's carved with a low rounded gable, drilled through.
Size: 54 mm. long and 42 mm...
A finely large engraved gable type seal in black serpentine, Anatolia, 4th. millenium BC.
Attractive seal, carved with Goats horns a bove symbols, could be pre-Hittite or Hattite period.
Size: 32 mm...
Interesting gable seal, probably North-Mesopotamian, 4th. millenium BC.
The seal engraved with a finely carved filled cross, elongated in form...
A fine large cylinder seal of the early Jemdet Nasr barrel shaped design, Mesopotamia, 3300-2900 BC. The seal is carved in a hard and dense material either a marple type or perhaps shell (?).
Seal very large for the period and craved with a fine grit-pattern and concenthric lines at each end. A string-carved round line at one side would have been made in antiquity.
Size: 31 mm. tall and 20 mm. thick...
A very attractive and scarce Tabloid seal, Northern Mesopotamia, c. later 4th. millenium BC.
The serpentine seal engraved with cruciform and stylized scorpio pattern. Fine thick drill.
Size: 20 x 17 mm...
A larger hemispheric stone seal with a dome and elaborate line below the drilling on the top, Mesopotamian, Uruk period c. 4000-3000 BC.
The seal is carved with a later version of the archaic 'grit' pattern, where it looks like horisontical script-lines.
Very nicely made in an attractive and very hard green-black stone.
Size: 28 mm. in diameter, 14-15 mm...
A larger serpentine stone stamp seal of the gable type, Ubaid period of Anatolia and Syria, c. 4th. millenium BC.
Recent research clearly indicates that highly advanced city cultures allready existed in the Ubaid period of Anatolia and Syria in the early 4th. millenium BC and perhaps even before that. This predates the Mesopotamian Uruk period, so it's a question who inspired who?.
Nice seal in hand engraved with a horned animal.
Size: 35 mm. long and 23 mm...
Impressive red stone Jasper Gable seal, Greater Mesopotamia,, probably a Levantine workshop, 4th. millenium BC.
A nice depiction of either a hering pattern or a stylized scorpio?
Size: 33 mm...
A large and fine archaic style serpentine stone stamp seal of the gable type, Ubaid period of Anatolia and Syria, c. 4th. millenium BC.
Recent research clearly indicates that highly advanced city cultures allready existed in the Ubaid period of Anatolia and Syria in the early 4th. millenium BC and perhaps even before that. This predates the Mesopotamian Uruk period, so it's a question who inspired who?.
Lovely scarce seal, sharply engraved with a stylized scorpion.
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. tall.
Condition: Good Ve...
A large and rare stone stamp seal, carved in black basalt with high knobbed handle, Neo-Hittite period, made in the Anatolia/ Levante, late 2nd. millenium BC.
Triangular seal plate, engraved with a larger bull in lovely archaic style and a smaller animal above and crescent below. Finely made knob handle with piercing.
Diameter 25 x 24 mm. height 17 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine for type, only light smooth wear and patina.
Ref. see the Ashmolean collect...
Large stamp seal in a fine greyish green stone, probably Chlorite, Anatolia / Northern Syria Ubaid period, c. 4th. millenium BC.
The base of the seal is engraved with a fine symethric arrangement, probably showing antlers or something floral. A nice Gable seal type with perfect symethri and sharp lines.
Size: 42 mm. long and 24-25 mm. wide. Unusually large and thus attractive
Condition: Extremely fine, smooth glossy patina with no wear or damage.
This...
Interesting huge seal from the Oberländer collection. It was described as unidentified and probably ceramic, but to us it looks like Limestone, but we're not certain. At first glance it looks like a Pre-Columbian seal, but details doesn't compute and there were no Pre-Columbian seals in the collection, so it could be from Mesopotamia / Western Asia, we're not certain.
It's sold as guaranteed ancient and 800+ years old.
Size: 35 mm tall and 36 mm. thick!
Conditi...
A slim early cylinder seal in fine-corned white marple, carved with a characteristic and significant design for the Period of Jemdet Nasr in Mesopotamia.
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. These seals guaranteed the authenticity of marked ownership: as such, the...
A fine and rare late Pre-Dynastic / Late Jemdet Nasr period, Mesopotamian Cylinder seal of translucent Alabaster, early 3rd. millenium BC.
The seal carved highly concave with a fine rendering of centipedes.
Size: 16-17 mm. tall and c. 14 mm. thick.
Condition: Extremely fine, intact
OBS! Comes with the original ID card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection...
A lovely high relief Cylinder seal in a greyish brown hard and glossy stone, Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
OBS! Comes with the original ID card from below collection.
Interesting leafy design that we've seen on much earlier stamps from Halaf-Ubaid.
Size: 22 mm. x 12 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with a few microchips, sharp details.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impor...
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. These seals guaranteed the authenticity of marked ownership: as such, t...