Ancient egyptian limestone relife fragment 9cm.

Carved in sunken relief as part of a funerary inscription, colored with Egyptian blue pigment.

Condition look at pictures please.

From an old German collection.

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Ancient egyptian Shabti of Pa-scheri-en-Ptah, born by Nes-Mut 12,6 cm.

Inscription of the hiroglyphs with glass paste.

Third Intermediate Period, 21th/22th Dynasty.

Material faience.

The shabti is made from faience and has a mummie shaped body with visible hands, the left hand holding a hoe, the right hand a plow and a bag over his shoulder. The figure stands on a base plate and leaning against a back pillar...

Condition look at pictures please.

From an old German collection.

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Ancient egyptian faience Shabti "Osiris; justified" 6cm.

No individual name is given here. The shabti could be used for any dead person.

Third Intermediate Period, 21th/22th Dynasty.

Material faience.

Condition look at pictures pleas.

This ushabti figurine is depicted as a worker holding two hoes for work in the fields of Osiris in the afterlife.

He is wearing a tripartite wig which falls down between the shoulders...

Ancient egyptian faience Shabti 6,8cm.

Third Intermediate Period, 21th/22th Dynasty.

Material faience.

inscription: "Osiris; The singer of Amun, justified."

Condition look at pictures pleas.

This ushabti figurine is depicted as a worker holding two hoes for work in the fields of Osiris in the afterlife.

He is wearing a tripartite wig which falls down between the shoulders...

Low bodied Attic jug with horizontal flanges at the belly and the base. The beaked spout flanked by two applied knobs rendered as rotelles. The high-swung strap handle from neck to shoulder.
The cushion shaped top with five delicate palmette stamps linked by very fine incised arcs.
The reserved incurving area between the flanges and the broad flat base show the distinct orange-red color of Attic clay.
For a related Atticizing epichysis from Northern Apulia cf. item no...

A rare and elaborate bronze battle axe, Late bronze age or early Ironage, 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 heavy axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and a broadening downward curving blade. Peculiar for this culture is the large pronounced ridge on top on the blade near the socket

Size: 12 cm. long, 8 cm...

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...

Outstanding four-spiral fibula of the Amendolara type.
Made of two single wires coiled into opposing spirals. In the center a disc with embossed edge.
A separately worked fibula underneath with one end coiled to extend into a pin, the other bent down into a hook...

Large Etruscan oinochoe of oval body. The flared neck pinched to form a trefoil shaped mouth.
The cylindrical handle spans from rim to shoulder. Standing on a splayed foot.
Rasmussen's oinochoe type 6a. The absence of a ridge at the junction between neck and shoulder and the lack of decoration gives this group a very plain appearance.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 9012079.
Ceramic, grey bucchero
Etruscan, 600-575 BC
H...

Rare funerary cone with three registers of sunk hieroglyphs reading: (1) The Bearer of the brazier (2) of the temple of Amun, (3) Nekhy.
This cone and a second one held in a Japanese collection are the only known examples of the type, which is enumerated as 650/B.23 by Zenihiro.
Both the name and the title on the cone are uncommon. The personal name Nekhy is not listed with Ranke. Also the title is rarely reported and not yet known on funerary cones.
The humble title may poi...

A very rare type with multible knobs on a swollen head and with a tubular shaft, Caspian steppes / Indo-Iranian, later bronzeage, ca. early 1st. millenium BC.

Interestingly there's oulined a reclining animal on the socket below near the rim, perhaps a lion. Size: ca. 8,1 cm.

Condition: Superb, nice even dark-green patina with some uncleaned dirt.

Ex. Danish Collection of ancient weapons, bought at the Danish Antiquities market in the 1980-90s.

A superb bronze mace head decorated with faceted knobs around the swollen head and flanked by grooved bands with a tubular shaft, later bronzeage, ca. 1200-800 BC.

Size: Ca. 10,5 cm.

Condition: Superb for type, wonderful even green patina.

Ex. Danish Collection of ancient weapons, bought at the Danish Antiquities market in the 1980-90s.

A superb bronze mace head decorated with faceted knobs around the swollen head and flanked by grooved bands with a tubular shaft, later bronzeage, ca. 1200-800 BC.

Size: Ca. 10,4 cm.

Condition: Superb for type, wonderful even green patina.

Ex. Danish Collection of ancient weapons, bought at the Danish Antiquities market in the 1980-90s.

A extremely rare Danish neolithic Daggeraxe from the Funnelbeaker culture dating to 3500-3000 BC.

The daggeraxes were mounted on shafts just like axes, and there and their use was connected to rituals and ceremonies as well as they were used as weapons in battle. Compared to daggers and axes, the daggeraxes were only made in very limited numbers.

This particular specimen is very rare since it's deliberately carved (knapped) so that the blade is curving inwards, thus givin...

Burnished Etruscan chalice on a high flaring foot with a single ring on the stem.
The decoration consists of three grooves on the wall and a notched ridge below. The foot with faint horizontal bands in applied white.
Elegant example with glossy black burnished surface.
Rasmussen's chalice type 2d and close in shape to fig. 136, pl. 27 (pp. 98-99 and p. 22) in: Tom B. Rasmussen. Bucchero Pottery from Southern Etruria. Cambridge1979. The finding context of the example points t...

Terracotta head of a man with a round hairstyle which covers the ears. The hair with impressed circles and remains of white color.
The man shows wide almond-shaped eyes with neatly marked cosmetic lines and eyebrows. The prominent nose with pieced nostrils, the lips pressed to a gentle smile.
Elaborate style with much use of the modeling tool. The piece constitutes a fragment of figurine or a sculptor's model.
For a related head, cf. inv. no. E.07619 in the Royal Museums of...

A rare renaissance oval relief plaque with Skt. Peter, Escarvated in Birkenhard, Germany, ca. 15th.-16th. century or even earlier

A very interesting oval plaque in cast iron, medieval or early renaissance period. The motif is quite beautiful showing Sct. Peter ct. Petri with the key in his left hand and the almost unreadable inscription ''sct. Petri'' over his head. The backside bears evidence of the long history in Danish-German Collections, so it was found in the late 18th.-early 17...