Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern (721)

Very attractive rectangular stamp seal with elaborate rilled handle, Post-Hittite states of West-Mesopotamia, and East Anatolia, later 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal carved with a winged animal.

Size: 19 mm. wide and 17 mm. thick, 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, intact and with fine patina and much deposits. This seal has potential when manually cleaned for dirt...

Interesting Iconographic type of flat round stamp seal with an emblem or hieroglyphs in the center inside a circle of wedges, Hittite Empire, 16th.-14th.- cent. BC.

Size: 21 mm. wide and 7 mm...

A fine Neo-Babylonian stamp seal carved in the typical trapezoid shape, but using an unsual greenstone, West-Mesopotamia, 8th.-7th. cent...

Very attractive stone stamp seal, Uruk period of Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC. Very attractive large stamp seal in finely polished black stone, Uruk period of East Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill...

A scarce large stamp seal, Western Mesopotamian, Halaf-Late Ubaid period, Neolithic-Chalcolithic, c. 6th.-5th. millenium BC.

Interesting very early stamp seal of a triangular shape with the handle shaped as a Cicada with closed wings!

Size: 27 mm long and 24 mm. wide, 17 mm...

A lovely condition seal imprints with long inscriptions in pahlevi around a central emblem, terracotta, Sasanian c. 3rd.-5th. cent. AD.

Size: 19 mm.

Comes with original Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...

Very attractive large stamp seal in finely polished black stone, Uruk period of East Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Round seal with elaborately evolving handle from the back and carved with lovely symethric depiction of loops. Quite unique! Described by the collector as Hittite, but the seal is clearly provincial Uruk style.

Size: 29 mm x 23 mm and 15 mm. tall...

Very attractive larger stamp seal in fine polished green stone, Ubaid-Uruk period of Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Oval seal with tall handle rounded edges and carved with interesting depiction of small globes in different sizes.

Size: 29 mm x 23 mm and 15 mm...

Carved in black stone with a winged deity between horned animals, fishes and a Scorpion, Kingdom of the Mitanni, 15th - 14th cent BC.

Finely composed and engraved in drill style.

Size: 19 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Provenance: Old German collection of fine cylinder seals, Karl Müller, 1950-1977.

A nice round stamp seal with handle, with precise finding place near the ancient city of Antioch, and dating to the Mesopotamian late Halaf-early Ubaid period, Late Neolithic - Early Chalcholite, c. 5th. millenium BC.

Nice early hemispheriod stamp seal with low handle.

Size: 26 mm wide, 12 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact, with minor corrosion and deposits.

Comes with imprint and original Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer...

A nice Urartian bronze with engraved animal, Western Mesopotamia, Kingdom of Urartu, early 1st. mill. BC.

A scarce type in bronze with a tubular boddy and small loop at the top.

Size: 19 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine and intact.

Comes with imprint and original Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collection...

A scarce larger stamp seal, with precise finding place near the ancient city of Antioch, and dating to the Mesopotamian Halaf period, Neolithic, c. 6th.-5th. millenium BC.

Interesting very early stamp seal of a triangular shape that almost looks like flat-iron. with pierced handle.

Size: 31 mm long and 20 mm. wide, 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine and intact, with minor corrosion and deposits.

Comes with imprint and original Id card.

Proven...

Interesting and rare massive cylinder seal and stamp in one, Eastern Anatolia / West-mesopotmian pre-dynastic, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal finely engraved with a bulls-eye pattern and a deep relief star in the base. Topdrilled with loss to the small loop.

Size: 22 mm. thick and 30 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine or about so, loss to loop and some wear, with much cleanable earthern deposits.

Comes with imprint and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Ober...

Interesting seal pendant made in bronze with double loop and engraved with a wild beast, Seljuq Islamic, c. 11th.-12th. cent.

Size 26 mm. long, choice condition with fine green patina.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near Eas...

A scaraboid stamp seal in black stone, made in the Assyrian client states in Western Mesopotamia, c. late 2nd. millenium BC.

Interesting carving of stylized warrior with shield and sword. Stylized scarab carved in black stone.

Size: 22 mm. long and 20 mm. wide!

Condition: Nice Very fine and with a nice patina and still with some sandy deposits.

Comes with imprint and original Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer a...

Interesting Egyptian inspired scaraboid stamp seal, with torquise glaze, Western Mesopotamia 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.

Finely designed oval svcaraboid with leaf-shaped engraving in the base, probably as early as the 3rd. mill. BC.

Size: 27 mm. long and 18 wide, 11 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine.

Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive ...

A fine early style bronze compartement stamp seal, c. 3rd. mill. BC.

The seal with a fine symethric sun symbol in the base and a twisted rod handle and loop.

Size: 27 mm. wide and 25 mm. tall.

Comes with imprint and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and...

A finely patinated bronze intaglio with the depiction of a winged lion or beast, Mesopotamia, probably Achaemenid, c. 1st. mill. BC.

Fine style and attractive.

Size: 17 x 16 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine.

Comes with imprint and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specia...

A fascinating and exceedingly rare bronze stamp seal of the Hephthalites or the Whine Huns as they're also known. Hunic Empire of the Hindu Kush, 4th.-6th. century AD.

The seal is of an advanced form with a tall handle ending in an oval loop. The plate is oval and engraved with a fine depiction of a parading horse.

Size: 17 x 16 mm.



Condition: Good Very fine, intact and attractive.

Comes with imprint and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Ob...

Highly interesting stone seal carved in an extremely hard jade-like stone (probably nephrite), Anatolia, found at Mersin, c. 2nd.-1st. millenium BC.

Archais symethric grit pattern in the base, the seal itself of a monolithic shape that could look like an animal head. This is dated by Oberländer to the Pre-Historic period, but we believe it to be a later seal, due to the shape of the seal and the very hard stone used.

Size: 20 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine...

A scarce triangular stamp seal, carved in a fine red jasper stone with a grit-pattern in the base, probably 2nd. mill. BC.

Though the motif of the grit pattern points to a pre-historic dating, the choice of stone and the shape and polishing of this seal, probably makes the seal much later, made up in the 2nd. mill. BC.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Size: 18 x 13 mm. and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collectio...

An interesting and scarce geomethric carving on an gable form stamp seal, found Near Antioch (Western Mesopotamia and present day easternmost Turkey), dating c. 4th. millenium BC or somewhat later.

Finely carved in greenish stone. Drill carved with stars!

Size: 28 x 18 mm. and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, uncleaned deposits but sharp!

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and...

An interesting and probably emblematic carving on a Bifacial rectangular seal, found Near Antioch (Western Mesopotamia and present day easternmost Turkey), dating c. 4th. millenium BC.

Finely carved in dark greenish stone.

Size: 18 x 12 mm. and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012)...

A rare bone seal with a finely carved base, Western Mesopotamia, dating to the 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal in the rectangular gable form, carved with with two animals in the base.

Size: 25 mm. by 23 mm.

Condition: Very Fine, intact and nice for type considering the fragile material, with some extensive wear from use to the back from the string.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

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A scaraboid stamp seal in black stone, made in the Assyrian client states in Western Mesopotamia, fine mid-Assyrian style, c. late 2nd. millenium BC.

Reportedly found near Antioch.

Winged Deity, probably Ashur tending the Tree of Life, interesting symbols. Stylized scarab carved in an attractive black stone.

Size: 22 mm. long and 20 mm. wide!

Condition: Extremely fine and with a nice patina and still with some sandy deposits.

Provenance: G...

Wonderful birdhead-shaped stamp seal in a glossy green hardstone (rare!), Syro-Levantine part of Mesopotamia, probably 5th. mill. BC.

A pre-historic / Neolithic seal carved with a fine grit pattern in the base, the form of the seal itself as a stylized birds head.

Size: 28 mm. wide and 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, small ancient scuff.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection an...

A very attractive seal of an impressive size for a hemispheric stamp, Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Interesting Ubad-early Uruk stamp seal from Mesopotamia. The seal round with drilling to the back, quite flat and carved with geomethric lines.

Size: 31 mm. in dianeter - large for this type.

Condition: About Very fine, attractive with some even wear from extensive use.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the ...

A very attractive stamp seal of the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, carved in a scaraboid / gable form, 3rd. mill. BC.

Substantial seal carved and finely polished in a beautiful diorite hardstone, very popular and scarce in antiquitiy and used extensively by the Egyptians. A black hardstone with white inclusions. The seal in the gable of scaraboid shape and with the preffered carvings of globular patterns of the Uruk period stamp seals of Mesopotamia.

Size: 25 x 24 mm and 10 m...

Interesting West Mesopotamian stamp seal, probably costal, catved in a nice beige stone with an animal and another smaller animal in the corner above, c. late 2nd. mill. BC.

Size: 15 x 14 mm and 7 mm. thick.

Condition: Very fine, intact.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collecti...

A fine Grecco -Persian bronze spearhead, later 1st mill BC.

The blade with slim shoulders and central midrib. The sharp edges of the blade slope into a long, folded conical socket with an opening at the back and a straight.

Size: 34,5 cm - socket is about 18 cm.

Condition: Choice - cleaned somewhat hard, but still with nice red and green patina, as shown on photos.

Ex Private Collection.

A superb condition beige hardstone stamp seal, Cilicia / Levante, c. 1200-800 BC.

The seal expertly carved and polished into it's present perfect pyramidal shape and carved in the base with a bird. Beautiful stone used.

Size: 16 mm tall and 13 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2007. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), O...

An early tabloid stone seal with a particularly vivid Sun symbol carved in the base, Mesopotamian 4th. mill. BC.

Attractive seal carved in grey-black stone and centrally drilled. Reportedly found near the ancient city of Antioch.

Size: 22 x 20 mm and 6 mm. thick.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav...

A choice larger stone stamp seal of the Tabloid type, North-West Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with three strange symbols in deep relief.

Size: 28 mm. long and 22 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, intact with fine even wear and patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive ...

Interesting rectangular seal engraved on all 4 sides with human figures and stars, central drilling, North-West Mesopotamia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Size: 21 x 12 x 9 mm.

Condition: Very fine, some deposits and small ancient chip to a corner.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important colle...

Interesting and rare choice of an orange stone for a tabloid seal, North-West Mesopotamia, Uruk, 2nd. half of 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with a basket shape with a heering pattern, pierced.

Size: 20 x 19 mm.

Condition: Choice Very fine, some wear and deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aqu...

A fine quality stamp seal with carved handle and a square seal base, probalbly no earlier than 2nd. mill. BC.

The image of a demon walking is a depiction that is known in Anatolia from the late Uruk period in the late 4th. mill. and especially during the 3rd. mill. BC. We've handled a small handful of such seals over the years.

This seal is particular interesting, since it's really well carved completely symethric and with a lovely little round handle, engraved with a rel...

A very nice bifacial stone stamp seal of the Tabloid type, North-West Mesopotamia, Uruk, 2nd. half of 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with two angle field and framed crosses.

Size: 18 x 14 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important ...

A lovely large Assyro-Babylonian stamp seal with a particlarly interesting shape, carved of fine smoky grey calchedony, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

The scaraboid is carved almost like an oval hat with a pointy raised center and sides tappering inwards. The engraving on the base is of a large seated winged animal in the drill style.

Size: 22 mm. long and 19 mm. wide. c. 12 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and attractive, a small chip to the edge of the base and...

Very attractive and well-carved hemispheroid seal in a greenish black chlorite stone, Mespotamian, c. 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

Low button-shaped seal with elegant Cruciform engraving and cenytral pellet.

Condition: Good Very fine, some deposits.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collec...

Interesting early Gable stamp seal of the Ubaid period and probably made in the later 5th. mill. BC.

The seal depicts an artful motif of two juxtaposed stylized animals with long legs.

Size: 29 mm. long and 22 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, some weaer to the edges.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2008. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aq...

A choice Ancient Near East / Luristani tanged bronze dagger, dating to the 2nd mill. BC.

The dagger with high shoulders, short tang and the blade with central midrib.

Size: 24,9 cm.

Condition: Choice, a nice dagger with good metal. Some chips to the edge.

Ex. Private collection formed in the 1990's.

Attractive oval stamp seal, almost the shape of a scaraboid but much older belonging to the Uruk period of North-Western Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with an interesting motif of integrated animals (see Id card for a description.

Size: 25 mm. long and 19 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gus...

Wonderful Halaf period Booth-shaped stamp seal in a glossy green hardstone (rare!), Syro-Levantine part of Mesopotamia, probably 6th. mill. BC.

A pre-historic / Neolithic seal carved with a fine grit pattern in the base and shape like a boot or foot.

Size: 10 mm. wide and 11 mm. tall.

Condition: About Extremely fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1991. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenan...

A very attractive seal carved in fine shell (see the endings), Mesopotamia, late 3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting depiction of 4 different deities standing.

Size: 26 mm. tall and 14 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice Very fine and basically intact, the seal is nice, the imprint not so much.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2005. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012),...

A fine cylinder seal of a very large and thick size for type and carved depiction, Mesopotamia, somewhere around 3000 BC.

Nice symethric style in high relief within concenthric borders. The seal looks to be inspired by the style of the Jemdet Nasr, but to us the carving looks like there's an Archer is shooting a bow against an animal and another animal behind, highly stylized.

SizE: 30 mm. tall and c. 18 mm. wide, so the seal delivers a very long imprint.

Cond...

A superb cylinder seal in a rare material of Red Jasper for this period, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, c. 3300-3000 BC.

Sharp impression and attractive with both fishes and the 'eye'-symbol, which is typical of Jemdet Nasr.

The Jemdet Nassr Period in seal manifacturing,3300-2900 BC, were spreading from Southern Mesopotamia, where a great number of administrative cuneiform tablets and seals came from. Such seals was used to impress pictures or descriptions into soft, prepared clay. Thes...

Fine early stamp seal, Western Mesopotamia, Halaf to early Ubaid period, c. 6th.-5th. mill. BC.

Carved as a very stylized animal head, where the drilled hole is the 'eye', on the base simple Grit-pattern.

Size: 30 mm. wide and 16 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and intact with patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his ma...

Interesting intact amulethic seal in a fine semi-translucent green stone, rarely used for seals, Mesopotamia, probably costal region, 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.

A depiction of two mirrored Caprids in the base, drilled for suspension to the cord.

Size: 21 mm. wide and 14 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine and intact with patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926...

A choice green stone stamp seal with fine archaic engravings of animals in the base, Late Ubaid-Uruk, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Fine knob handle and a round seal plate. The base engraved with a two animals. Scarce early piece!

Size: 21 mm. in diameter and 17 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, nice patina with even wear.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012),...

An impressive seal with a finely carved base in an attractive white stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the slightly oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a horned animal and birds flying.

Size: 22 mm. by 20 mm. and 10 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav ...

Interesting finely polished hardstone stamp seal of an early hemispheric form, late 1st. millenium BC.

The seal particularly finely polished and carved in the base with a bird.

Size: 22 mm. wide, 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, completely intact with low relief engraving.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberl...

Another interesting larger stamp in fine calchedony, quaranteed ancient.

Size: 22 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide.

Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic ...

An finely preserved large triangular stamp seal with knob handle in a jet black stone, Western Mesopotamia, probably c. 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.

Large for type and with a deep relief engraving of animals and with other symbols etc in the fields.

Size: About 29 mm. wide - 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact, some even wear.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Interesting advanced seal in grey steatite carved with an ornate handle and nicely composed round seal base with an animal, Mesopotamia, early-mid 2nd. mill. BC.

Size: 22,5 mm. tall and 20 mm . in diameter of the round base.

A very attractive seal.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 198...

A very attractive stamp seal in a red brown glossy stone and a small perforated handle, Mesopotamia Uruk period, probably 3rd. millenium BC.

Finely engraved in the base with several animals!

Size: 24 mm. wide (diameter) and 14 mm. tall.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, b...

Interesting seal with a long handle and rectangular base, Western Mesopotamian, Ubaid of the 5th. mill. BC.

Finely made grit pattern at the base and quite scarce as a type.

Size: 22 mm. long and 14 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, some cleanable deposits.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important ...

Interesting and very attractive black stone stamp seal with two sides, of the Anatolian type, probably close to Mesopotamia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal carved with horned animal on one side and a swastika (sun-symbol in the Chalcolithic period) on the other.

Size: 19 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberlände...

Attractive substantial stamp seal in black-greenish stone with handle Western Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Interestin base carved with three animals incl a large deer with antlers, a Scorpion above and a smaller animal at the rim.

Size: 21 mm. tall and 20 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, fine old patina!

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gu...

Interesting larger stamp seals from the borderland between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, probably costal and carved in a blood red stone in the pyramidal shape, 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

The base in carved with Ubaid-Uruk period cross pattern with two pellets.

Size: 28 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his mass...

A very rare tall Mesopotamian cylinder seal made in a fine shell type of material, Djemdet Nasr / early Dynastic cylinder seal with wavy line decor. About 3000 - 2750 BC.

A very attractive seal decorated in low relief with a sort of brocade pattern; our clay did stick a bit, so it would be possible to make a better imprint of this.

Size: 39 mm tall!

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collec...