Authentic Ancient Roman, 2nd-3rd century A.D. Terracotta Oil lamp.Carinated body. Mold-made. Small, plain discus with central filling hole; channel incised with diagonal lines between discus and nozzle, flanked by large volutes. Broad, sloping shoulder decorated with a row of twelve cylindrical shapes decorated at tops with incised lines and impressed circles.
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Authentic Ancient 90-140 A.D. Roman Italian buff red Terracotta Oil lamp Loeschcke Type 8, with ring handle. Shallow plain concave discus: a single filling hole at center, and a groove and raised circle around edge. Slightly sloping shoulder and Incised base ring.
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Black glazed pottery lebes with tapering body and raised handles on the rounded shoulder. Thickened rim to accommodate a lid.
Traces of fingertips around the base where the vessel was held to be dipped into the glaze.
Lebes gamikoi were vessels associated with marriage rituals held for both the living and the unmarried deceased.
For the shape, with rounder body, cf. vase no. 4432a 1 in: Jean-Paul Morel. Céramique Campanienne: Les Formes. Rome 1981...
This exquisite and rare Scythian bronze quiver strap-crossing is believed to date back to the 5th century B.C. It features a stunning and detailed design of a feline, with intricately crafted details and features that showcase the impeccable skill of the ancient Scythian artisans...
Authentic Ancient Holy Land. circa.50 B.C to 50 A.D. Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great Terracotta Oil lamp with rounded, compressed body and short spout with flared nozzle with would have held a wick which, soaked in combustible would have been lit to provide the light in the house.
Provenance: Ex Private old Canadian collection of antiques and antiquities formed in the 1980s.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
MEASUREMENTS:
Overall length: 10 cm...
An ancient Canaanite bronze dagger blade from the Holy Land area dates back to the Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 B.C. This blade dates back to the time of Moses. The blade is double-edged, tapering, and has a medial ridge. It was cast, hand-forged, and has a short tang for attaching a handle.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 20.5cm (8.7 inches)
CONDITION: It is in excellent condition for an antique combat dagger that is over 3000 years old. No cracks or repairs...
Ancient Egyptian Red Fainence Monkey Amulet 1,4 cm
Provenance: Old German collection befor 1983
Condition: look at pictures
If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
An ancient Egyptian white steatite scarab, with finely engraved anatomical features such as clypeus, prothorax and elytra. The reverse is detailed with hieroglyphs, including the engraved depiction of a beetle scarab with the sun disk, a basket, a feather of Maat and a papyrus stem. The amulet is pierced longitudinally for suspension.
Origin: Egypt
Period: 1539 - 664 B.C.
Date: 18th - 25th Dynastie
Material: Steatite
Dimension: 1,3 cm...
Ancient egyptian motto scarab with torquise blue glaze 13mm
A faience motto scarab. The base is inscribed with the characters Reed, Nefer and Neb, which together make up an Amun trigram.
Comparison: Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Baseler Sammung. Page 332 n.712
Condition: look at pictures
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Scarab Thutmosis III / Reign 1479–1425 BC / 14mm
Comparison: Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Baseler Sammung. Page 246 n.276
Condition: look at pictures.
From an old German collection.
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Scarab Thutmosis III / Reign 1479–1425 BC / 11mm
Comparison: Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Baseler Sammung. Page 246 n.277
Condition: look at pictures.
From an old German collection.
If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
A lovely and very rare Gothic style polishing steel or sharpener for edged weapons, Austria, ca. late 15th. century.
Very attractive with a wonderful twisted and curled finial and the look of a key with one slot.
Size: 85 mm. long
Conditin: Superb...
A very rare full size early gate key in an extraordinary condition, European, late 13th.-14th. century.
Beautiful key with a round bow flute, a long solid stem, large bit with complicated slots.
The decoration of Gothic iron locks and keys was often elaborate and of the highest standard of workmanship. The motifs were frequently drawn from Gothic architecture, reproducing on a miniature scale complicated tracery patterns and even tiny statuettes. A number of these tiny loc...
Beautiful pottery dish with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern, Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.
The Dish in an almost untouched state with fine silvery irridescence on the surface. Very beautiful colours.
Size: 17,7 cm. in diameter. - c. 7 inches.
Condition: Choice and intact, a few places of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice dish.
Ex. Important Danish Private Collection
Interesting fragments of large stoneware tiles, Vulci/Volci, Etruscan, c. 6th-4th. cent. BC.
Fine substantial pieces moulded and painted floral motifs.
Size: 16 x 10,5 cm. and 15 x 9 cm. both very thick.
Provenance: P. Treffz-Eichhöfer collection, Stuttgart, Comes with certificate from Gallery Antiqueo, Paris, France 2007! Ex. New York Auctionhouse.
Lot of three very attractive and massive Sasanian stamp seals in beautiful stones, all with engravings relative to the Gilgamesh myth in low relief, 3th.-6th. cent. AD.
A nice lot that we bundle to safe listing time!
Diameter: 30, 31 and 26 mm.!
Condition: Fine to Very Fine.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gus...
An ancient-medieval bronze bowl of the high tin content 'white bronze' type with engravings Gaznavids, dating to c. 10th-11th. century AD.
A massive bowl, likely a food bowl for really large parties. The bowl almost completely covered with fine azurite patina on the exterior and when cleaned would reveal the fine design of incised circles-dots (bulls-eye), likely hexacons as well.
Sizre: 22,2 cm. wide and 8,5 cm. tall.
Condition: Superb for type, exceptional fr...
A large and rare tablet stamp seal engraved with a depiction of temple-doors on each side, Levantine, Pre-Canaanite lands, Late 3rd. mill. BC.
The engravings on this nice rectangular seal in white calcite, was interpreted as being temple doors by the former owner, in any case a fine complicated image for the period. Special stone and rare for the culture.
Size: 40 mm. x 31 mm. c. 8 mm. thick. Very large for a tablet seal.
Condition: Very fine, attractive with so...