An ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1615 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 1/2” long (12 mm) and made of crystal quartz. 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.
Nice Etrusco-Corinthian aryballos decorated with red-brown bands and lines. Two bands below the shoulder enhanced with lines in applied red. Tongue pattern on the shoulder. The base with a small cavity below.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Pottery database no. 1009975 (vase no. 1)
Ceramic
Etruscan, 620-580 BC
H. 9.3 cm (3.7 in)
Strap handle and small area of the disk rim restored...
Terrific hand axe from Northern Africa, Sahara Desert, Neolithic period, ca. 10,000 to 6000 BC.
A finely knapped bifacial axe with finely curving shape to a thick center and done in a lovely mottled brown silex or chert.
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: 12,5 cm.
Condition: Near mint, fantastic patina!.
A lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, more than 2,300 years old, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 3/8” long (9 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. Hathor is pictured...
Tall bottle with flat base, piriform body, and long cylindrical neck ending in a flared rim.
Unguentaria are small ceramic or glass bottles frequently found in burial contexts. Their most common use was probably as a container for oil. The unguentarium is sometimes referred to as lacrimarium (tear-container) or balsamarium (balsam-container). All three terms reflect different assumptions about their use.
Ceramic
Greek, Hellenistic Period, 4th-2nd century BC
H...
You are considering a very attractive ancient Egyptian Hyksos mummy beads necklace dating to Hyksos period, 1500 BC
Measurements: Length: 46 cm
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Egyptian burial sites have yielded enormous quantities of beads in many varieties...
Ancient Roman marble head of a woman, depicted in her youth, her oval face with a rounded chin and slightly-parted full lips, the almond shaped eyes beneath a softly curving brows arching gracefully and merging with the bridge of her nose, her hair pulled behind her ears in a majestic way
Roman, 1st Century AD
Measurements:
Height: 10 cm - Width: 6 cm - Height on stand: 21.5 cm
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
The head is nicely mounted on a plexi-...
An attractive and scarce oval stamp seal carved with an animal inside a border and symbols, Early Hittite, 2nd. mill. BC.
Carved in greyish green stone, quite nice.
Size: 22 mm. long and 18 mm...
A choice Islamic Sgraffito pottery dish, Bamiyan, c. 12th cent AD.
Nice earthenware dish with incised, floral decorations in the interior. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors.
Size: 15,5 x 4 cm.
Condition: Choice & intact. Fine condition for the type with original glaze. A few chips in the interior and on the rim.
Provenance: Prominent Danish-French Private Estate collection, (aquired 1970- c...
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
If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
A extremely well engraved large scaraboid, Western Mesopotamia, c. early-mid 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal in finely mottled stone and engraved with a capride with fine details in a drill-like style.
SizE: 30 mm...
Interesting collection of a faience Shu amulet and a book from the property of Lord Grenfell...
Faience shabti inscribed with six lines of horizontal text starting just below the crossed arms.
The spell reads: ‘The Governor of Upper Egypt, Anhh-Hor, he speaks, oh, this shabti’ and is followed by version VII-A of the shabti spell.
The inscription shows an exceptional orthography and archaic vocabulary reminiscent of the renaissance of ancient Egyptian culture at the beginning of the 26th Dynasty.
Ankh-Hor was a high rank official under Psammetichus II and Apries and...
Ancient Roman vessel attachment, depicting a finely detailed figure of a lady, wearing an elaborate headdress, the shape of her breast protruding from her well-defined garment and her right hand playing the well-defined lyre. 1st/3rd Century AD. From a NYC private collection.
A scarce to rare hemispheric stamp seal with loop at the back, probably Luristan, pre-historic period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
The seal of an excellent style in a greenish-black stone, carved with a star radiating from circular border and a central dot / Leaf-shaped pattern.
Diameter: c. 19 mm...
A very early stone cylinder of the group of massive Uruk seals, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, probably late 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia.
A very thick seal engraved in a fine black stone with symethric eye symbols in the drill style.
Size: 22 mm. thick and 27 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, with even Wear and fine patina with deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, ...
Interesting and quite scarce early greek pottery spindle flask with fine brown glaze and concenthric decorations, probably Western Asia cities, 3rd.-2nd. cent. BC.
Attractive with the round marks from the pottery wheel and tiny details.
Size: 12,5 cm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very Fine, a small chips to the edge of the rim. Unsusually finely preserved surfaces.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, comes with COA.
An ancient Egyptian Scarab, 3000 years old, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 1/2” long (13 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Notice that the bottom resembles a human face; this was done frequently. 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.