Interesting large glass amulet tessera, drilled to use as pendant, black glass, dated to the Ptolemaic period, c. 200 BC, but could perhaps malso be early Roman (see id card)
The unusually large and finely preserved piece decorated with a Lion in high relief.
Size: 28 mm. wide and 17 mm...
Large fragment of a Greek red figure Crater, c. 4th. cent. BC.
Figural decoration with part of a female.
Size: c. 15 cm. long and 8 cm. wide.
Ex. Old private Collection, comes with COA from Clive Sawyer 'Antiquities and Ancient Coins'
Nice lot of two idol figures of deities incl. Mercury, Roman Imperial period, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
Size: 46 and 43 mm.
Condition: Both w lossses to extremeties, nice patinas.
Ex. German private Collection.
A nice seal carved in red jasper of the thick high relief style, popular in the later Uruk period.
The seal is carved with fleeing animals.
Size: 12 x 10 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine.
Comes with hard impression and ID card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
An ancient Egyptian Scarab for Tuthmosis III, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 11/16” long (17 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
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...
A wonderful symethric style scarab of stylized form, Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos Period, Dynasty 15th -17th. 1786 – 1650 BC.
Interesting type with fish inside bullseye oval.
Size: 17 mm.
Condition: Nice VF, attractive brown patina and intact with some minor chipping.
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...
A nice tanged bronze lance from Ancient Near East, East Caspian Sea Area, 2nd. mill BC.
The lance with rouned shoulders and a defined, central midrib, interesting thick tang.
Size: c. 21,5 cm.
Condition: Nice Very fine, wear, but nice metal. Beautiful red patination.
Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1990's.
Fine seal carved in Quartz-Diorite, engraved with winged animal, likely a Griffin, on the base, Neo-Assyrian, 9th-6th. century BC.
Very attractive stone carved in a pyramidal shape with small piercing at the top. The use of diorite in art was most important among very early Middle Eastern civilizations such as Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, and Sumer...
Fine hand axe from Northern Africa, Sahara Desert, Neolithic period, ca. 10,000 to 6000 BC.
A finely knapped bifacial in a lovely pinky-brown silex or chert, with inclusions. Partly polished gloss section.
During this time period, weather conditions called the Neolithic Subpluvial meant that the Sahara was a green, fertile landscape, ideal for hunter and gathering cultures.
Size: 12,2 cm. x 5,5 cm...
A nice round stamp seal with handle, with precise finding place near the ancient city of Antioch, and dating to the Mesopotamian late Halaf-early Ubaid period, Late Neolithic - Early Chalcholite, c. 5th. millenium BC.
Nice early hemispheriod stamp seal with low handle.
Size: 26 mm wide, 12 mm...
Interesting large bronze pendant in a Lunar or crecent shape with two loops, Dark-age or Viking 8th.-10th. cent. AD.
Attractive and wearable today with decorations on the surface.
Size: 43 x 35 mm. - very thick weighing 53.68 grams!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of ancient seals ans some amulets between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Small glass phial, with a bulbous body resting on a circular foot and surmounted by a cylindrical long neck. Slight irisations and soil encrustations. Roman period, ca. 3rd century. Height: 5.5 cm. Very good condition.
Green glazed steatite scarab with presentation of hippopotamus goddess Tuwaret 2,1 cm.
18. Dynasty (ca. 1550-1300 BC)
Origin: Egypt
Condition: look at pictures
If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
A lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab for Tuthmosis III, c. 1450 BC. It's from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 9/16” long (14 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
This is an ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1800 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
Interesting seal pendant made in bronze with double loop and engraved with a wild beast, Seljuq Islamic, c. 11th.-12th. cent.
Size 26 mm. long, choice condition with fine green patina.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
An interesting and rare motif of a coiled on a Ubaid period stamp seal of the round gable type, Mesopotamia c. 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
Size: c...