A large Colima saucer-shape olla from West Mexico, ca. 300 BC – 300 AD. It is 11” in diameter, 6” high and is decorated with four panels of 24 raised dots. The deep red slip is highly burnished and shows extensive mineral deposits. A professionally restored stress crack is barely visible, else in excellent condition. An elegant form.

Rare - ancient biblical Iron Age "Phoenician" painted pottery set, a wine amphora depicting in reddish paint a design of a lilly flower and bands all around the body and a bowl-shaped strainer with a handle!
This type of wine amphora would have been used to carry concentrated wine"

A museum quality plexi-glass (Lucite) custom made display stand

Dated from, 1000 - 586 BC "Time of the Kings of ancient Israel"

Measurements: Height: 24 cm - Width: 16 cm
Strainer: Height: 6.5 cm...

Ancient "Canaanite" Early Bronze Age pottery oil lamp with four spouts and a flat base, dated from, 3000 - 2000 BC

These four-spouted lamps are among the earliest vessels specially made to be lamps. Older still are the simple bowls from the Chalcolithic period (fourth millennium BCE) with telltale burn marks on their rims (sometimes in depressions), which show that these bowls were used as lamps...

Greek terracotta fragmentary mask, dated from, 400 BC

Measurements: Height: 14 cm - Width: 13 cm - Height on stand: 22 cm

Condition: Intact

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Rare - Ancient Roman "Jewish" Darom southern type pottery oil lamp, nicely decorated with two large bunches of grapes on the shoulders, a wine leaf design on the nozzle

Dated from, 100 - 200 AD

Measurements: Length: 9.5 cm - Width: 6.5 cm

Condition: Some minor repair hard to see at the lower part nozzle otherwise intact

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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Japanese Edo period woodblock print depicting “Shikamatsu Kanroku Yukishige Wringing Water from his Sleeve” from the series “Stories of the Faithful Samurai” published by Ebiya Rinnosuke in 1847. The print is signed at the lower right "Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga" (1797-1861). The red Yoshi Kiri seal is beneath the signature. The series features each of the historical forty-seven ronin (masterless samurai) who avenged the death of their lord in 18th century Japan...

Ancient Persian Amlash bronze leaf-shaped spearhead with beautiful patina

Dated from, 1200 - 1100 BC

Spearhead with a long blade, a broad midrib, a rectangular-sectioned tang, and a reinforced shaft opening to reveal the tang and rounded shoulders;

Measurements: Length: 31 CM - Width: 4 cm

Condition: Excellent archaeological condition, not repaired and not restored

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A rare Salinar Portrait vessel from Peru, ca. 200 BC – 100 AD. This beautifully detailed vessel is 7-1/2” high and depicts an individual adorned with appliqué ear ornaments. His facial features are molded in high relief and the face is extensively incised with a variety of geometric and zoomorphic designs, which, along with the spout, clearly show the Chavinoid roots emulated by early Salinar artisans. Intact, good mineral deposits.

A spectacular Jalisco zoomorphic vessel from West Mexico, ca. 200 BC - 350 AD. It is 7-1/2" high, 7-3/4" long and the bowl is 8" in diameter and is most likely intended to depict an armadillo carrying a large bowl on its back. Its nicely detailed head has a playfully expressive face, with protruding tongue. These vessels were important objects in the burial rituals of the elite. They were placed at the entrances of tombs and filled with burning incense, just prior to the tomb being sealed...

A rare Moche IV deity effigy from Peru, ca. 450 – 550 AD. This fine sculpture is 9-1/2” high and depicts Ai Apaec with the face of an owl. He is portrayed seated with hands resting on the knees and is wearing a layered mantle. In excellent condition, with good kaolin slip and mineral deposits.

Cf. Larco-Hoyle “Los Mochicas II”, page 347, for similar from the Herrera Museum.

Ancient Byzantine highly decorated incense burner

Dated from, 5th - 6th Century AD

Measurements: Height: 13 cm - Diameter: 15 cm

Condition: Base with a hole from antiquity, minor upper side section has been professionally repaired hard to see otherwise intact!

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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Rare - ancient biblical Late Bronze Age pottery beer jug with a long spout and a strainer

Dated from, 1550 - 1200 BC "Time of Moses"

Measurements: Height: 16.5 cm - Width: 17.5 cm

Condition: Spot professionally repaired and restored as shown otherwise intact

Found in Samaria "Biblical name Shomron" northern Israel

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Rare style - ancient Byzantine highly decorated pottery oil lamp depicting a large cross on the nozzle, palm branch on the handle, a wreath around the filling hole and a fine palm branch below the cross at the nozzle

Dated from, 5th Century AD

Measurements: Length: 9 cm - Width: 6 cm

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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Ancient Roman decorated pottery oil lamp depicting floral design all around the shoulders

Dated from, 1st - 2nd Century AD

Measurements: Length: 8 cm - Width: 5.5 cm

Condition: Intact

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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Ancient Greek - Hellenistic pottery oil lamp

Dated from, 330 - 100 BC

Measurements: Length: 8 cm - Width: 5.5 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found in Israel

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