Interesting and beautiful seal made in a very hard high quality shiny mottled green-blue stone. The seal Western Mesopotamia / Levantine 5th-4th. millenium BC.
Interesting archaic desing of the base but note the extremely fine style with multiple crossed lines, which were possible due to choice of stone.
Size: 20 mm. long and c. 13 mm...
An low hemispheric stone seal of the Cruciform design family, Anatolia or Syria, Uruk period, c. 3500 BC.
An early seal in a jet black stone with a nice and symethric engraving of an angle-filled cross.
Size: c. 18-19 mm...
A scarce and seldomly offered ancient stamp seal in good condition with a nice Zig-Zag design, South Caspian Sea area, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
An low oval stone seal, as peculiar for this type is that it's symethric and does not have a flattened base with a seal engraving as is typical with the earliest seals. Carved in a brownish stone and with Zig-Zag at one side and with a few fainter engraved symbols on the other siden.
Size: 21 mm...
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 nice smaller stamp seal in a fine stone, engraved with a cross-linear grid-like pattern. The fine engraving of the base is a tell-tale for the late manifacture, Levantine, c. 2nd. millenium BC.
Size: 14 mm. The base in fine intact condition the high handle worned through from use.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
A seldomly offered ancient stamp seal in good condition with a nice Zig-Zag design, South Caspian Sea area, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
An low oval stone seal carved in a all black stone and with Zig-Zag at the base low drilled handle at the top.
Size: 22 mm. long
Condition: Nice Very Fine, with some fine wear and patina.
Reff...
A rare substantial rectangular stamp seal with pronounced handle at the back and engraved with a fine 4 parallel panels of Zig-zag patterns, c. 4th. millenium BC, perhaps somewhat earlier.
Size: 24-25 mm. long and 20 mm...
An low oval stone seal of the Cruciform design family, Northern Syria or Mesopotamia, Ubaid / Uruk period, c. 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
A very early seal with low handle and drill in an all black stone with a nice and symethric engraving of an angle-filled cross.
Size: c. 19-20 mm...
A highly unusual bronze seal with a 14,3 cm. projecting handle, Bactria, Hindu-Kush area, c. 3rd. millenium BC.
A very rare design of the handle which suggests that it could have been for heating and perhaps marking lifestock?, interesting and with a beautifuly carved star design of the base. First time in stock ever.
Size: Handle is 14,3 cm. long and 2,5 cm. diameter of the star shaped seal...
Large bronze cross pendant in a hollow style with two halfs put together.
Likely Eastern Europe, 12th.-14th. century AD.
Size: c. 38 mm. quite heavy.
Ex. Hafnia Coins stock, bought in Denmark in the late 1990s.
An exceptional stamp seal in a fine harder greyish green stone, Anatolia / Northern Syria c. 4th. millenium BC.
The base of the seal is engraved with a fantastic and very graphical depiction of a flock of birds in flight.
A superb Gable seal type with perfect symethri and sharp lines and the impressive size makes it worthy of any collection of early seals.
Size: 60 mm...
Rare libation bowl with twelve egg-shaped cavities around the central omphalos. The recesses served to hold votive eggs.
On the inside of the segmented rim twelve neatly modeled youthful heads with Phrygian caps.
Egg-and-dart decoration along the rim, on top and around the base of the omphalos.
The surface is covered with a yellow wash to imitate metal prototypes.
Surviving terracotta counterparts are connected with Tarentum, where toreutic workshops were particularl...
Interesting bronze stamp seal, engraved with Lion in the drill style, 9th.-7th. century BC.
A knobbed seal, carved with a vivid Lion in the Neo-Assyrian style but with a likely place of manifacture to the North-East of the Neo-Assyrian Empre.
Size: 19 mm.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in...
A fine black stone stamp seal with high relief, Ancient Near East Uruk period, c. 2nd. half of the 4th. millenium BC.
High relief cross with recessed circles in each quadrant.
Reff. See Christies sale of the Erlenmeyer collection 6th. june 1989, lot 208 for a quite similar representation (finds in Tepe Sialkh and Tepe Hissar).
Size: 21-22 mm. in diameter and 11-12 mm. tall.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive a...
A lovely and very rare early seal pendant with recessed animal, Northern Mesopotamia, c. 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
Late Halaf period large oval pendant with flat backside and the seal engraved with a four-legged animal, loop at the top.
Size: c. 27 mm. tall.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized i...
Bottle with a long stretched neck harmoniously twisted in the shape of a swan's neck. The glassmaker shaped his work with gadroons, a painter decorated it with golden flowers. This type of object was a teardrop intended to receive the tears of ladies when their husbands went to war. The almond shape of the edge adapts perfectly to the eye. These vases were made from the 18th century and throughout the 19th. especially in 1900. Copies are probably still made. It is impossible for me to date this ...
A nice study lot of 5 stamp seals in different kind of stones incl. serpentine and marple, made in semi-autonomous Neo-Hittite states of Syria and Levante, during the Neo-Assyrian period, early 1st. millenium BC.
The seals mostly of the tall pyramid shape, but there's also a double-side rectangular seal. The bases and sides engraved with crosses and other symbols.
Size: Up to 17 mm. max height.
Condition: All intact.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1...
A collectors lot of 5 stamp seals in different kind of stones incl. serpentine and chlorite, made in semi-autonomous Neo-Hittite states of Syria and Levante, during the Neo-Assyrian period, early 1st. millenium BC.
The seals mostly of the tall pyramid shape, but there's also a 4-side rectangular seal, engraved with symbols on all 4 sides and vertically drilled. Another fine seal is cones-shaped and with a high relief engraving of the base.
Size: Up to 15 mm. max height.
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