Finely detailed bust of Herakles, with well defined, strong facial details, thick curly beard, thick wavy hair and wearing the lion skin across his chest. 1st Century BC/1st Century AD. 3 3/4 inches high. Mounted. NYC art market. Purchased in a prominent NYC auction, said to be from an old NYC collection.

A rear and ancient Pre Colombian quartz and green jade necklace. The long quartz beads average length is from 75 to 85 cementers in length. In the light you can see the painstaking drilling of the holes in the quartz.Two animals carved in the gree jade. See photos Age is over 2,000 years old. Length is 43 cm. Condition: one long quartz bead is broken otherwise in good condition.

A very large and impressive terracotta figure of Aphrodites.

She is depicted as a beautiful and voluptious deity, completely naked, bending her right knee, thus twisting her body slightly. Her hands are held up holding on to a couple of bands that possibly would have held a textile veil in place. She is wearing a large snake-ring jevellery bracelet on her right thigh.

Her elaborate headdress is in the style of the court, during the Severan period, late 2nd...

A lovely and sizeable terracotta bust on a plint of a muscular young man, Time of Hadrian, ca. mid 2nd. century AD.

A very attractive bust with a wide strong chest and painted facial details in black pigment. His hair is rather long and he is arising from a round plint as was the typical for the Imperial Roman busts. The bust is possible depicting Antinous, Hadrians famous lover.

Size: 18 cm. tall and 10 cm...

A very nice ceramic figure of the standing female deity Artemis with her boots on, leaning with her right on a pillar, Roman Imperial, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

A well-modelled figure in red terracotta with white-grey pigments preserved.

Size: 12,4 cm.

Condition: Choice and completely intact and thus very rare!

Ex. Private Collection from before 1980.

A marble head of the ancient Phrygian god of vegetation and consort of the great Mother of the Gods, Cybele. Wearing the Phrygian cap, with bulging eyes and with prominent facial details. 3 1/4 inches high. 1st-2nd Century AD. Formerly in a Tucson, Arizona old private collection.

A lovely sculptured pottery head of a Roman lady with elaborate hairstyle, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

The head of a young woman with a slight smile and with head twisted slightly to the left.

Size: 47 mm. tall.

Provenance: German private collection from the 1960s to ca. 2000.

Wonderful large pottery head, perhaps a theatre head, Roman Egypt, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

The human head with grotesque features.

Size: 87 mm. x 85 mm.

Condition: Very fine, missing one ear othervise completely intact and choice! Nice old brownish patina.

Ex. German Private Collection, 1925-1979.

A wonderful sculptural Roman terracotta figural group of Aphrodite leaning on Amphora to her right and holding the hand of the small winged Eros to her left, Early Roman Imperial, c. 1st. century AD.

Size: 16,2 cm.

Condition: Extremely fine, intact and great for the type.

Ex. Old Private Collection, aquired before 1980.

POTTERY HEAD OF ASTARTE "FERTILITY GODDESS"
HOLY LAND, ROMAN, BEIT NATIF, 300 - 400 AD

Measurements:
Height: 5 cm
Width: 4.5 cm
Height on stand: 12.5 cm

Found near Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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Larger Boat-shaped bronze axe with oval socket, Dong Song Culture of the Annam region Vietnam, c. 300-100 BC.

Enigmatic for the Dong Son culture and very attractive with it's boat form and vivid patina. The Dong Song Culture evolved semi-autonomous from the Han Empire in China until the powerful Han-dynasti Nanyue expanded south around 110 BC. and incoporated the region.

Size: 10,5 cm wide and 10 cm tall.

Condition: Very fine...

A lovely larger silver figure of a Hare, Roman Imperial, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

Very nice roman style and of high grade silver.

Size: 31-32 mm. weighing 5,69 grams.

Condition: Superb, attractive old greyish toning.

Ex. Austrian Private Collection since the 1970s.

Fine Imperial Roman Marble Modillion or Corbel with Acanthus leaf , very rare and well carved with its bound papyrus buds and delicate acanthus tendrils and flowers. This piece dates to the 1-2nd c AD and has a wrought iron attachment at the back and a slightly tapered end to compensate for its attachment to the front pediment of a building to compensate for the visual angle of the pediment , in the pictures listed is one of the front of Romes Pantheon's pediment with near identical modillions...

Extremely rare Roman stone fragments of a Sarcophagus.

Dated from, 100 - 200 AD

Measurements: Height: 17 cm - Width: 20 cm / Sides: Height: 16 cm - Width: 10 cm - Height: 16 cm - Width: 10 cm.

Condition: Intact as excavated. Not repaired and not restored.

Excavated in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land. All items that we offer for sale come with a certificate of authenticity.

A beautiful silver bust of a Godess, Roman Imperial, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

Very nice roman style and of high grade and partly gilt silver.

Size: 3,62 grams and c. 1,7 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb, attractive old greyish toning.

Ex. Austrian Private Collection since the 1970s.

Larger architectural Roman marble fragment, weighing c. 1000 grams.

A 15 cm. long and 11 cm. tall Roman marble from an architectural structure, showing a repeating vaseform or rhombic decoration on steps. A nice and inexpensive piece of Roman sculptural art in marble.

Provenance: Collection of Gunna Munkvad, Denmark, aquired from the 1950s-1980s.

A huge lead/bronze head of Gorgoneion / Medusa, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

Interesting oversized item, probably from a piece of furniture or a military cariot. Very high relief and stunning quality portrait, made in lead and bronze.

Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 9,3 cm. wide and weighing 1180 grams - 1,18 kilograms!

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1980s-1990s, bought from Ancient art dealer Arne Johansen, Pilestrædet Copenhagen c. 1990.

A lovely detailed massive silver figurine of a Male Godess standing with patera (offerbowl), Roman 2nd.-3rd. century AD.

Silver votive figures like this was popular among the elite in Rome. The figure could depict the God bacchus, god of wine.

Height 38mm, massive weighing 16,07g.

Ex. Austrian Private Collection since the 1970s.