Interesting and rare Neo-Assyrian or Neo-babylonian double stamp seal of blue glass, early 1st. mill...

Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in marble or another calsite stone, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.

Nice substantial piece!

Size: 21 mm tall and 15 mm...

Attractive seal, carved in green-black stone with a knob handle, Western Asia, Neo-Hittite states, c. 1200-800 BC

Triangular seal plate, engraved with a 4-legged animal, struck by an arrow. The knob handle engraved wioth grit-pattern.

Diameter: 19 mm. Height: 16 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with fine dessert patina.

Reff...

A nice larger hemispheric stamp seal engraved in the base with a Cruciform design and pierced through, Mesopotamian, Ubaid, c. 5th. millenium BC.

Size: c. 23 mm...

A nice lot of two provenanced stamp seals, Mesopotamia, Halaf period, c. 6th.-5th...

A nice lot of two provenanced stamp seals, Mesopotamia, Ubaid period, 5th.-4th...

Shabti for Psusennes II (Pasebakheniut II) Worker

Excavated in 1940 by Pierre Montet in Tanis, tomb III

Cairo Museum, overseer JE 86959, worker JE 86958

Photo: Tanis, L’or des pharaons pg. 136-137

Origin: Egypt

Period: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

Date: 959 – 945 BC

Material: Fayence

Dimension: 7,0 cm...

Thin-walled Attic skyphos with steep walls curving in at the rim. The tilted horizontal handles reserved on the inner side. Standing on a torus base, the underside enhanced with a carefully drawn dot and circle motif.
Ceramic
Greek Attic, 450-425 BC
H. 5 cm (2 in)
W. over handles 11.6 cm (4.6 in)
D. 6.9 cm (2.7 in)
Intact and fine. The brilliant black glaze worn in places.
Ex Galeria M. A. Daneu, Palermo, inv. no. Sca426...

Very large black-glazed skyphos with high swelling body and horizontal horseshoe handles.
The torus ring foot with carefully turned and glazed inside edge. The reserved surface with a crimson wash. Excellent brilliant black glaze.
The quality of the pottery shows the treatment of standard Attic products. J. W. Hayes refers to these as Atticizing wares, cf. pp...

Three bottles with elongated foot, spindle-shaped body, and long cylindrical neck. The buging rim of two of them (foot of one) dipped into brick-brown glaze.
For similar dipped examples from Sicily, cf...

Interesting stone stamp seal found in Harran, easternmost Turkey, prior to 1991. Harran was founded as a real city at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center.

This seal is engraved with distinctive spoked wheel in the base, so we can date as 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.
The seal finely polis...

A squat early cylinder seal in cream marble or calsite. The seal is 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 owner...

Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in marble or another calsite glossy stone, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.

Impressive size in hand in a beautiful stone, scarce!

Size: 17 mm tall and 15 mm. thick!

Condition: Nice very fine, intact with blackish discolouration in parts.

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

Provenance: Gustav Oberländ...

A fine and rare late Pre-Dynastic / Late Jemdet Nasr period, Mesopotamian Cylinder seal of translucent Alabaster, early 3rd. millenium BC.

The seal carved in high relief with a fine rendering of centipedes.

Size: 28 mm. tall and c. 15 mm. thick.

Condition: Very fine, old loss at one side, othervise extremely fine. Nice patina and attractive.

OBS! Comes with the original ID card and imprint from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberlän...

Shabti for Iset Ta - Hemdjert (2)

Faience Ushabti “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramses III.

Death figure with uraeus and youthful curls, as well as with remains of the eight-line surrounding inscription.

Queen “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” had at least two children, Ramses the successor to his father, and Amunherchepeschef (Ramses VI), who became king after the death of his brother and nephew (Ramses V. The grandchildren of "Iset Ta-He...

A large two-colored Egyptian eye of Horus amulet. Made of turquoise glazed composite, the pupil and eyebrows accentuated in dark brown. Dating c. to the 22nd to 25th Dynasties, 946 - 657 B.C. Condition: traces of age. Dimension: c. 3.3 cm long, 2 cm high, 0.5 cm thick.

Shabti for Iset Ta - Hemdjert (1)

Faience Ushabti “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramses III.

Death figure with uraeus and youthful curls, as well as with remains of the eight-line surrounding inscription.

Queen “Iset Ta-Hemdjert” had at least two children, Ramses the successor to his father, and Amunherchepeschef (Ramses VI), who became king after the death of his brother and nephew (Ramses V. The grandchildren of "Iset Ta-Hemdjert...

Very tall bottle with elongated foot, tapering body, long thin neck, and bulging rim.
Ceramic
Greek, Hellenistic Period, 4th-2nd century BC
H. 25 cm (9.8 in)
Broken neck reconstituted. Some wear and accretions on the body.
Swiss private collection. Acquired in the German art market, June 2008.

The authenticity of the object is unconditionally guaranteed.