Interesting stamp seal of a pyramidal shape, enhgraved with a fine bird in the base, Syro-Hittite, c. 1200-800 BC.
Size: 19 mm. tall and 15 mm wide.
Condition: Extremely fine.
This seal was aquired 2002 and comes with hard impression and original 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...
Interesting large round seal with a finely made engraving in the base, East-Anatolian, 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.
Highly interesting engraving!
Size: 30 mm. in diameter and 13 mm...
A fine cylinder seal carved in the fine hard Hemaetite stone, Neo-Assyrian, 9th.-7th. cent. BC
The seal is of a fine style, engraved with stylized animals in drill style, incl. a scorpion
Size: 18 mm tall and 8 mm. wide.
Condition: Near Extremely fine, fine miniature carving.
This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection...
A scarce and interesting Cylinder-stamp, found around Antiochia, probably, dating around 2nd. mill. BC, though the collectors dated this seal much earlier (see picture of his ID-cards)...
An interesting high-relief cylinder seal of bronze, Western Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.
A thick cylinder with 5 deep reliefs of animals, very unusual and attractive!
Size: 25 mm. tall and 14 mm. thick...
Interesting marble cylinderse, Mespotamia, dating to Middle-Late Assyrian Empire, mid 2nd. to early 1st. mill. BC.
The seal engraved with horned animals and symbols.
Size: 26 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide. Large and attractive in hand.
Condition: About Very fine...
Large kylix with the sketchily depiction of a woman in the tondo. The lady takes a smell at a flower in front of her face. The style is cursory, the details keenly applied with a brush.
Singular Italic imitation of a Greek cup, executed by a local artist of limited experience.
For a comparable cup from the Peucetian settlement of Ruvo, cf. fig. 6.6 in: Ada Riccardi. The Italic People of Ancient Apulia...
Wall fragment rendered in sunk hieroglyphs showing a nicely carved vulture over a shallow bowl and the sign for bread. The sequence mentions the goddess Mut and can be completed to the recurring epithet ‘Mut mistress of the sky’ [Mwt nbt pt].
The feet of another bird appear over the vulture.
Mut was an ancient Egyptian sky goddess and great divine mother. During the 18th Dynasty she formed the Theban triad together with the god Amun and her youthful son Khons...
Interesting large stamp, slightly Oval and inspired by Egyptian scarabs, Middle-Assyrian Empire, 15th.-11th. cent. BC.
Very large for the type and engraved with a finely carved winged and horned animal. On the other side was an engraving of Ashur that was deliberately partly erased in antiquity! So the removing of Ashur would have been done by enemies of the Assyrians.
Size: 26 mm. long and 23 mm. wide.
This seal was aquired 1989 and comes with hard impression a...
A rare and interesting Western Mesopotamian stamp seal, Levantine workshop, near Antioch, Achaemenid type, c. 7th.-4th. cent. BC
The seal of a hemispheric design that became popular in the 1st. mill. BC. The image is interesting since it shows a Bull butting left with a bird on it's shoulder, leaf above and unidentiofied object before.
Size: 18 mm. wide, 14 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with some wear.
This seal was aquired 1994 and come...
A rare and interesting Western Mesopotamian stamp seal, c. 4th. mill. BC
The seal of a gable design that became popular in the 4th. mill. BC. The image is interesting since it shows a Turtle!
Size: 28 mm. wide, 24 mm. tall and 7 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, with some wear from extensive use in antiquity, nice patina.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav ...
A scarce large square stamp seal with finely carved handle, Neo-Hittite states of Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, c. 1200-800 BC.
The seal square and carved with a large animal and smaller animal above, there's also a symbol or a bird in the corner and all within a frame.
Unusually large and attractive seal.
Size: 24 mm. x 22 mm. in diameter of the base and 15 mm. tall.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-...
A fine larger blackstone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal shows a horned animal in a strongly archaic style.
Size: 35 mm. wide and 29 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with nice even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-...
A fine large oval green stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal shows a stylized image, probably animalistic forms.
Size: 33 mm. wide and 30 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with nice even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 1995 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gu...
A fine large stamp seal of rare low cone-shaped form, Northern Mespopotamian, c. 4th. mill. BC.
The seal shows an animal in a artful stylized style.
Size: 29 mm. in diameter and 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, almost intact, fine and glossy stone.
This seal was aquired as early as 1988 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massiv...
A rare and very early German wooden figure of Saint John with lamb, Germany, 16th. century.
A finely made figure, with polychrome painted gesso on carved wood. With inlaid glass eyes.
Size: 36,3 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice for type, intact with a few tiny losses to fingertips and wear to the original paint on the figure. The staff probably a later 19th. century addition.
Ex. Old Danish private collection.
An attractive round dark green almost black stone seal of the hemispheric form of the Uruk period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
The seal is finely polished and carved with a stylized motif that looks a like an insect.
Size: 20 mm. diameter and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact with nice even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 2003 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav ...
A lovely larger stamp seal in form of a stepped Pyramid, Neo-Hittite Kingdoms of the East Anatolia and West Mesopotamia, 1st. mill. BC.
finely carved and pierced at the top in a light brown stone. The top also engraved. The base engraved with a mythical winged animal.
Size: 21 mm x 21 mm. and 14 mm. tall.
Condition: Near Extremely fine, intact with nice patina.
This seal was aquired 2002 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below c...