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Ostracon Ancient Art
$280.00
$280.00
Large lanceolate hand axe made of a flake of tan quartzite. Bifacial tool with carefully worked front side. The rougher back side with fewer removals. Cutting edges and surface weathered by sand and wind action.
This type of tool making stands for the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616: Brett Kaufman. Between Sahara and Sea: North Africa from Human Origins to Islam...
This type of tool making stands for the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616: Brett Kaufman. Between Sahara and Sea: North Africa from Human Origins to Islam...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$180.00
$180.00
Large ovate hand axe made of a flake of tan quartzite. Bifacial tool with neat front side, the coarser back side with some removal of flakes. The continuous cutting edge weathered by sand and wind action.
This type of tool making is characteristic of the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616 (pdf): Brett Kaufman...
This type of tool making is characteristic of the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616 (pdf): Brett Kaufman...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$180.00
$180.00
Large ovate hand axe made of a flake of tan quartzite. Bifacial tool with carefully worked front side. The rougher back side with fewer removals. The continuous cutting edge weathered by sand and wind action.
This type of tool stands for the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and in North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616: Brett Kaufman. Between Sahara and Sea: North Africa from Human Origins to Islam...
This type of tool stands for the presence of Palaeolithic populations in North Africa.
For the hominid evolution in the Sahara and in North Africa, cf. Brown University Course ARCH 1616: Brett Kaufman. Between Sahara and Sea: North Africa from Human Origins to Islam...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1481066
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
$195.00
A very nice triangular stamp seal with a wide base engraved with the image of a Bull, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Nice and unusual carving.
Size: 32 cm. wide and 23 mm...
Nice and unusual carving.
Size: 32 cm. wide and 23 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1481065
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
$325.00
Interesting and impressive large stamp seal of the hemispheric form so popular in the late Ubaid/Uruk period in Mesopotamia.
The seal is carved with the image of a bird or animal headed demon walking. Really high relief and artfully done. Also interesting, the surface of the seal is drilled with small holes (not deep) as a sort of decoration.
Size: 31 mm. max. in diameter, rather massive in hand...
The seal is carved with the image of a bird or animal headed demon walking. Really high relief and artfully done. Also interesting, the surface of the seal is drilled with small holes (not deep) as a sort of decoration.
Size: 31 mm. max. in diameter, rather massive in hand...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1481063
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in West Mesopotamia and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.
Hemispheric stamp seal with a low handle and a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 11 mm...
Hemispheric stamp seal with a low handle and a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 11 mm...
Senatus Consulto
$475.00
$475.00
An exceptionally large and attractive bronze bow fibula, Migration period, Ostrogothic / Merovingian, c. 6th.-7th. cent. AD
The fibula with semi-circular headplate with four profiled knobs, rhomboid footplate with an animal-head ending. Head and footplate decorated with carved bulls-eye ornaments.
Size: 16,3 cm. long - very large for these!
Reff. See Gorny & Mosch auction 252 lot 395 for an almost similar size and type, estimated and sold for €1000...
The fibula with semi-circular headplate with four profiled knobs, rhomboid footplate with an animal-head ending. Head and footplate decorated with carved bulls-eye ornaments.
Size: 16,3 cm. long - very large for these!
Reff. See Gorny & Mosch auction 252 lot 395 for an almost similar size and type, estimated and sold for €1000...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480983
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
$325.00
A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.
Nice low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 28-29 mm. tall.
Condition: Near VF, intact with some dirt deposits
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
Nice low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 28-29 mm. tall.
Condition: Near VF, intact with some dirt deposits
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480980
Senatus Consulto
$475.00
$475.00
Reportedly found in Western Mesopotamia, the motif of this fine large stamp seal, is known also in Eastern Anatolia and dates to the late 5th.-4th...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480937
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
$195.00
Interesting and well-patinated white stone cylinder seal, Greater Babylonia, 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal carved with a symbol of animals with intertwinned necks and lines of pseudo cuneiform script.
Size: c. 24 mm.
Condition: Very fine and intact.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
The seal carved with a symbol of animals with intertwinned necks and lines of pseudo cuneiform script.
Size: c. 24 mm.
Condition: Very fine and intact.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480935
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
Interesting cylinder seal in white stone with fine drill-carving of figures and an alter, Neo-Assyrian provinces, early 1st. mill. BC.
Size: 26-27 mm. tall.
Nicely engraved but with some uncleaned earthern deposits that disturb the imprint a bit, so wit would improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
Size: 26-27 mm. tall.
Nicely engraved but with some uncleaned earthern deposits that disturb the imprint a bit, so wit would improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480933
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
$185.00
A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in Amung-Ebene / Antioch, and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.
Hemispheric stamp seal with a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 22 mm. in diameter and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and with fine patina.
This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlände...
Hemispheric stamp seal with a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!
Size: 22 mm. in diameter and 11 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and with fine patina.
This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlände...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480932
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
$185.00
Interesting massive seal with a provenance going back to the French Dealer j. Vinchon 1973. Greenstone seal with stylized engravings in the base and worn through handle from extensive use. Very early dating to the 5th. mill. BC or even earlier!
Size: 31 mm. x 21 mm, and 22 mm. tall.
Ex. J. Vinchone Paris, 1973 and ex. Oberländer 1996 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer...
Size: 31 mm. x 21 mm, and 22 mm. tall.
Ex. J. Vinchone Paris, 1973 and ex. Oberländer 1996 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480926
Senatus Consulto
$250.00
$250.00
A triangular stamp seal with handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. millenium BC.
Large for type and with the base engraved with a reclining animal with a branch of tree below and a bull upside down. Carved in a lovely green stone.
Size: 27 x 26 mm. 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with fine uncleaned earthern deposits.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1993. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection a...
Large for type and with the base engraved with a reclining animal with a branch of tree below and a bull upside down. Carved in a lovely green stone.
Size: 27 x 26 mm. 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with fine uncleaned earthern deposits.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1993. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection a...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480925
Senatus Consulto
$95.00
$95.00
Interesting and scarce stamp seal in red jaspis, Urartu Kingdom, c. 8th. cent. BC.
The seal carved with an animal.
Size: 13 x 14 mm. and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF, small perforation from the drilling in the center othervise choice.
This seal was aquired 1993, and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection bet...
The seal carved with an animal.
Size: 13 x 14 mm. and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF, small perforation from the drilling in the center othervise choice.
This seal was aquired 1993, and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection bet...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480923
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
$185.00
A large round or oval black stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal engraved with a 4-legged animal and with a bird above.
Size: 31 mm. x 29 mm and 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, intact with much even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
The seal engraved with a 4-legged animal and with a bird above.
Size: 31 mm. x 29 mm and 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, intact with much even wear and patina from use.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$4,800.00
$4,800.00
Large black-figure skyphos decorated with reclining men facing rams. Female attendants on either side walk away as they look back.
The men rest on mats, their elbows propped on pillows, three loaves of bread at their sides. The men are of different ages, the older one has a beard.
Both wear the petasos, the hat of travelers and farmers, and are dressed in a white chiton and a heavy himation decorated with red dots.
The rams in front of them show incisions and details in appl...
The men rest on mats, their elbows propped on pillows, three loaves of bread at their sides. The men are of different ages, the older one has a beard.
Both wear the petasos, the hat of travelers and farmers, and are dressed in a white chiton and a heavy himation decorated with red dots.
The rams in front of them show incisions and details in appl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480762
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A large gable seal carved in black stone with a Geomethric leaf pattern under the base, Western Mesopotamia, 5th. mill. BC. A very early seal of the gable type.
Size: 36 mm long and 23 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edge.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2002. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his ma...
Size: 36 mm long and 23 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edge.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2002. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his ma...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480718
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting stone seal, shaped as a stylized scarab after Egyptian model, West-Mesopotamian, among the earliest types of scaraboids, 3rd. millenium BC.
A particularly finely carved specimen with a sophisticated Leaf/heering pattern.
Size: 22 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with much uncleaned deposits, so the imprint will improve much when cleaned.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with ori...
A particularly finely carved specimen with a sophisticated Leaf/heering pattern.
Size: 22 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with much uncleaned deposits, so the imprint will improve much when cleaned.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994. Comes with ori...
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.
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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480335
Senatus Consulto
$250.00
$250.00
A lovely massive seal engraved with an archaic looking animal. Brown-green stone, Eastern-most Anatolia, c. 4th. mill. BC.
Size: 32 mm. wide and 28 mm. broad, 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Choice VF intact, with finely encrusted and patinated surfaces.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2001. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and i...
Size: 32 mm. wide and 28 mm. broad, 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Choice VF intact, with finely encrusted and patinated surfaces.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2001. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and i...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480328
Senatus Consulto
$125.00
$125.00
A lovely small stamp seal with high loop handle and carved in a black and white stone, Urartu Kingdom, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.
The seal base engraved with an animal. A rare stone seal from this culture and period.
Size: 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and intact with uncleaned patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
The seal base engraved with an animal. A rare stone seal from this culture and period.
Size: 15 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, choice and intact with uncleaned patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberlä...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480327
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A fine very large gable seal carved in white stone with smaller and larger animal, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Size: 37 mm long and 27 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edges.
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 collection of seals ...
Size: 37 mm long and 27 mm wide, 11 mm thick.
Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edges.
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 collection of seals ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1480326
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
A fine and impressive large stamp seal with wide loop handle on the back and deeply carved with a cruciform pattern in drill style. Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 3300-2900 BC
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine, sharp seal with minor ancient loss to the rim. With ancient patina and deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and fro...
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine, sharp seal with minor ancient loss to the rim. With ancient patina and deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and fro...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical
item #1480241
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
$195.00
A very nice tanged bronze dagger, Ancient Near East, dating to early 2nd mill BC.
The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.
Size: 25,5 cm
Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.
Ex Danish Private Collection
The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.
Size: 25,5 cm
Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.
Ex Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical
item #1480240
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
An nice lot of three ancient Bronze daggers from Ancient Near East, early types of the 3rd.-early 2nd. mill. BC.
The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC
All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.
Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.
The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC
All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.
Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492
item #1480202
Senatus Consulto
$850.00
$850.00
A rare and massive octagonal Islamic tile in Blue & White ceramic material, probably stone-past, imitating Ming Dynasty, Near East, c. 15th.cent. AD
A huge tile with fine style floral decoration in blue and white. Unfortunately missing a bit and put together from three large pieces. The tile is measuring 26,5 cm. x 26 cm. so each of the pieces is basically as large as most tiles are!
Size: 26,5 x 26 cm. and 2,5 cm. thick.
Ex. Swedish private Collection, aquired...
A huge tile with fine style floral decoration in blue and white. Unfortunately missing a bit and put together from three large pieces. The tile is measuring 26,5 cm. x 26 cm. so each of the pieces is basically as large as most tiles are!
Size: 26,5 x 26 cm. and 2,5 cm. thick.
Ex. Swedish private Collection, aquired...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$420.00
$420.00
Fine rim fragment showing the fight of Herakles against the snake-headed hydra.
The hero brandishes his club while three snake heads appear in front of his chest. The monster’s body winds around the hero’s legs.
Herakles is shown with a muscular body. His face is carefully rendered, as well as the fur of the lion’s skin or the knobs of his club.
The hydra shows tiny scales on the body and the snake heads.
The present Herakles scene comes from the same mold as ...
The hero brandishes his club while three snake heads appear in front of his chest. The monster’s body winds around the hero’s legs.
Herakles is shown with a muscular body. His face is carefully rendered, as well as the fur of the lion’s skin or the knobs of his club.
The hydra shows tiny scales on the body and the snake heads.
The present Herakles scene comes from the same mold as ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000
item #1480170
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
$325.00
Interesting and very rare Bifacial bronze seal, showing both sides of a Peacock, Bactria / Indian antiquitiy, c. 1st. millenium BC.
Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.
Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.
Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.
Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.
Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.
Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479992
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
Larger seal carved in black stone, Western Mesopotamia, 2nd. millenium BC.
A very special and rare stamp seal, carved in the shape of a high tower with 4 turrets. The base engraved with a seated humanoid figure beside a tree. Drilled at the top.
Size: 28 mm. tall and 16,5 mm. wide at the max.
Condition: Very fine, loss to one turret but othervise good very fine and with a nice ancient patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with ...
A very special and rare stamp seal, carved in the shape of a high tower with 4 turrets. The base engraved with a seated humanoid figure beside a tree. Drilled at the top.
Size: 28 mm. tall and 16,5 mm. wide at the max.
Condition: Very fine, loss to one turret but othervise good very fine and with a nice ancient patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479990
Senatus Consulto
$115.00
$115.00
A nice seal carved in in a black stone, Anatolia or Western Mesopotamian, c. 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.
An oval gable or a scaraboid shape and carved with a Cross inside a trangle and rays around.
Size: 21 mm. wide over the base and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, minor flawls.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Ob...
An oval gable or a scaraboid shape and carved with a Cross inside a trangle and rays around.
Size: 21 mm. wide over the base and 10 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, minor flawls.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Ob...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479937
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting black stone cylinder seal, Western Mesopotamia, Hittite / Provincial Assyrian style of the mid 2nd. millenium BC.
The seal is carved with a large bird and the Tree Of Life.
Condition: Nice VF, basically intact with much uncleaned dirt on the surfaces.
Comes with COA and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and...
The seal is carved with a large bird and the Tree Of Life.
Condition: Nice VF, basically intact with much uncleaned dirt on the surfaces.
Comes with COA and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479902
Senatus Consulto
$575.00
$575.00
A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, probably jasper or coral, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.
High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
JFF Ancient Art
€780.00
€780.00
Nice ancient Egyptian cartonnage fragments with column of hieroglyphic text.
These three cartonnage fragments have an interesting and old provenance. They come from the Commandeur Marius Cazeneuve (1839-1913, he was a French stage magician,
who became a close friend of the queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III) collection;
he got a lot of antiquities from his friend, the noted Egyptologist and Director of the
Cairo Museum, Gaston Maspero. Some time after that it was in the colle...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479881
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
$225.00
A fine intact stone wig / separate hair, BACTRIA-MARGIANA COMPLEX, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately made hair of green chlorite for a large composite stone figure. These have often lost their hair, since they were not tightly fixated and would have fallen off and cracked.
A very detailed and elaborate wig or hair carved with groves.
Size: 32 x 25 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately made hair of green chlorite for a large composite stone figure. These have often lost their hair, since they were not tightly fixated and would have fallen off and cracked.
A very detailed and elaborate wig or hair carved with groves.
Size: 32 x 25 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479880
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
$185.00
A fine intact stone wig / seperate hair, BACTRIA-MARGIANA, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479860
Senatus Consulto
$385.00
$385.00
A lovely intact stone wig of exceptional quality for type, BACTRIA-MARGIANA, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately-made hair and hat? of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite figures which are often missing the wig / hair actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with a dome or crown and spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 32 x 25 x 12 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately-made hair and hat? of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite figures which are often missing the wig / hair actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with a dome or crown and spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 32 x 25 x 12 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre 1492
item #1479857
Senatus Consulto
$465.00
$465.00
A massive bronze figurine from the medieval period, Islamic, Seljuq Empire, 10th.-11th. century AD.
The lion stands erect on 4 legs and incised details of the mane and head. A particularly charming specimen with finely made features of the head of the Lion, heavy body and seperate legs. Would have been quite expensive in the medieval period with it's high weight of solid bronze and nice workmanship.
Size: c. 53 mm. long and 47 mm. tall, weighing 134,5 grams
Con...
The lion stands erect on 4 legs and incised details of the mane and head. A particularly charming specimen with finely made features of the head of the Lion, heavy body and seperate legs. Would have been quite expensive in the medieval period with it's high weight of solid bronze and nice workmanship.
Size: c. 53 mm. long and 47 mm. tall, weighing 134,5 grams
Con...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000
item #1479568
Ostracon Ancient Art
$1,850.00
$1,850.00
Votive figure of a naked woman, standing with her arms to the thighs. The head shows schematic features and a casket like wig. Schematic rendering of the body, crudely carved in the round.
Enhanced with red and black painted decoration. Red for the necklaze, the upper arm bracelets and the (decorative lines) around the shins. Remains of black on the hair and the pelvic triangle.
Freestanding figures are comparatively rare. Other variants show women standing within shrines or niche...
Enhanced with red and black painted decoration. Red for the necklaze, the upper arm bracelets and the (decorative lines) around the shins. Remains of black on the hair and the pelvic triangle.
Freestanding figures are comparatively rare. Other variants show women standing within shrines or niche...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$780.00
$780.00
Rare terracotta draped Corinthian column, the details of the capital and the drapery finely modeled.
The motif is uncommon and supposed to bear some funerary significance.
Behind the monograms ΠΓ. A small vent hole below the inscription.
For a related item, cf. The British Museum Collection, inventory no. 1220.131, found at the Halikarnassos mausoleum excavations of 1857.
Terracotta
(East) Greek, late 2nd to 1st century BC
H. 7.5 cm (3 in)
Intact...
The motif is uncommon and supposed to bear some funerary significance.
Behind the monograms ΠΓ. A small vent hole below the inscription.
For a related item, cf. The British Museum Collection, inventory no. 1220.131, found at the Halikarnassos mausoleum excavations of 1857.
Terracotta
(East) Greek, late 2nd to 1st century BC
H. 7.5 cm (3 in)
Intact...
Ostracon Ancient Art
$580.00
$580.00
Miniature perfume vessel decorated with three running dogs between narrow encircling lines. Dot-rosettes in the field and on the shoulder. Solid rays on the rim and around the foot.
Conical shape pointed towards the hollowed foot. A strap handle joins the disk rim with the shoulder.
Ceramic
Proto-Corinthian, around 650 BC
H. 6.1 cm (2.4 in)
Neck and one fragment at the rim reattached. Creamy white slip with root marks. Black glaze partially worn and crazed in ...
Conical shape pointed towards the hollowed foot. A strap handle joins the disk rim with the shoulder.
Ceramic
Proto-Corinthian, around 650 BC
H. 6.1 cm (2.4 in)
Neck and one fragment at the rim reattached. Creamy white slip with root marks. Black glaze partially worn and crazed in ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479523
Senatus Consulto
$135.00
$135.00
Interesting stamp seal carved in fine serpentine stone almost black, Mesopotamian, c. 4th. mill. BC.
Rectangular seal, carved with an animal in the base and also finely decorated on the other side.
Size: 19 mm. x 14 mm. 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Choice Very fine.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired h...
Rectangular seal, carved with an animal in the base and also finely decorated on the other side.
Size: 19 mm. x 14 mm. 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Choice Very fine.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired h...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479521
Senatus Consulto
$250.00
$250.00
A rare and fine condition for type cylinder seal made in a piece of bone utilicing the original shape, carved with dynastic triangular patterns, Mesopotamian, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
Size: 21 mm. tall and 15 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, smaller chipping too the ends, fine patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberl...
Size: 21 mm. tall and 15 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, smaller chipping too the ends, fine patina.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberl...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479520
Senatus Consulto
$275.00
$275.00
A fine Anatolian stamp seal of the Uruk style of the 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
A finely engraved larger stone stamp seal, and with a horned animal in the base in deep relief.
Size: 26 mm. in diameter and 13 mm. tall.
Condition: Good VF, much uncleaned deposits, quite attractive.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his m...
A finely engraved larger stone stamp seal, and with a horned animal in the base in deep relief.
Size: 26 mm. in diameter and 13 mm. tall.
Condition: Good VF, much uncleaned deposits, quite attractive.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his m...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479519
Senatus Consulto
$295.00
$295.00
A lovely eastern Anatolian stamp seal of a rectangular gable form, Eastern Anatolia, 4th. mill. BC.
The seal carved with animal on the base probably birds flying?.
Size: 41 mm. wide and 21 mm. tall, 7 mm. thick.
Condition: Nice VF, slight wear but attractive and with a sharp imprint.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012)...
The seal carved with animal on the base probably birds flying?.
Size: 41 mm. wide and 21 mm. tall, 7 mm. thick.
Condition: Nice VF, slight wear but attractive and with a sharp imprint.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479518
Senatus Consulto
$285.00
$285.00
A triangular stamp seal with handle, Western Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. millenium BC.
Very large for type and with an interesting two colour stone where the upperside is calsified white and the base is in the original brown stone. The seal is engraved with a reclining animal on it's base.
Size: 29 x 29 mm. 18 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with much even wear.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID c...
Very large for type and with an interesting two colour stone where the upperside is calsified white and the base is in the original brown stone. The seal is engraved with a reclining animal on it's base.
Size: 29 x 29 mm. 18 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact and very attractive, with much even wear.
Added to the Oberländer collection in 1995. Comes with original ID c...
Explorer Ancient Art
$1,600.00
$1,600.00
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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Bronze : Pre AD 1000
item #1479485
(stock #03891)
AWEIDAH GALLERY - JERUSALEM BASED GALLERY
Price on Request
Price on Request
BRONZE SPEAR-HEAD
CANAANITE, Late Bronze Age, 1550 B.C.
Time of Moses
Found in the Holy Land
CANAANITE, Late Bronze Age, 1550 B.C.
Time of Moses
Found in the Holy Land
Condition: Perfect condition with natural patina.
Measurements:
Length: 15 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm
Nicely mounted on a custom plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand.
Condition: Good condition with natural patina
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their SPEARS into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation not wil...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479254
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
$325.00
A thick early Mesopotamian cylinder seal in white-grey marple, carved with a characteristic and significant design for the Period of Jemdet Nasr, 3200-2900 BC.
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. These seals guaranteed the authenticity of marked ownership: as suc...
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. These seals guaranteed the authenticity of marked ownership: as suc...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479190
Senatus Consulto
$250.00
$250.00
A lovely large gable form stamp seal, with finding place given as Amúng Ebene (Antioch) in the eastern-most Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia.
Finely engraved in high relief with a Mountain Goat in high relief among symbols and birds.
Size: 27 mm. wide and 25 mm. tall, 9 mm. thick.
This seal was aquired 1996 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massi...
Finely engraved in high relief with a Mountain Goat in high relief among symbols and birds.
Size: 27 mm. wide and 25 mm. tall, 9 mm. thick.
This seal was aquired 1996 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massi...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479187
Senatus Consulto
$265.00
$265.00
Finely engraved cylinder seal in an attractive redish stone, with finding place given as Antioch by the Orontes, Eastern most Anatolia, c. 3rd. millenium BC or later.
Particularly interesting fertility depiction of a Bull jumbing a cow - a rare seal!
Size: 15 mm. tall and 6 mm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer ...
Particularly interesting fertility depiction of a Bull jumbing a cow - a rare seal!
Size: 15 mm. tall and 6 mm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479177
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting and attractive seal carved in bone or perhaps tooth, North-West Mesopotamia, probably 2200-1800 BC.
The carving with birds and other animals and symbols.
Size: 21 mm. tall and 12 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice VF for the type with the typical stress lines on the material and a small chip, atttractive nevertheless.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav...
The carving with birds and other animals and symbols.
Size: 21 mm. tall and 12 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice VF for the type with the typical stress lines on the material and a small chip, atttractive nevertheless.
This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479176
Senatus Consulto
$235.00
$235.00
Interesting cylinder seal, slender type of the Western Mesopotamia area, Late Pre-Dynastic c. 2600 BC.
Finely engraved for the type with a 4-leged plant-eater attacked by another animal from the back and above, deity standing behind.
Size: 20 mm. tall and 7 mm. wide.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impor...
Finely engraved for the type with a 4-leged plant-eater attacked by another animal from the back and above, deity standing behind.
Size: 20 mm. tall and 7 mm. wide.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impor...
Senatus Consulto
$375.00
$375.00
A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.
Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.
Size: 18 x 13 cm. nicely framed in a gilt frame so that only the text is visible and with COA from a German dealer on the back.
Condition: Exceptional for age and typ...
Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.
Size: 18 x 13 cm. nicely framed in a gilt frame so that only the text is visible and with COA from a German dealer on the back.
Condition: Exceptional for age and typ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pre AD 1000
item #1478570
(stock #05242023C)
Oldbailey Antiques
$595.00
$595.00
The first of these molds depicts a Makara surrounded by floral swirls. It measures 3-1/4" in both height and width. The second shows an animal face or mask and measures 1-3/4" in both height and width. Rubberized impressions included for both.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pre AD 1000
item #1478568
(stock #05242023B)
Oldbailey Antiques
$895.00
$895.00
A group of two authentic deeply formed pottery molds, used to create appliques for larger vessels. The larger of the two measures 4" in length and the interior depth is just under 1". The second measures 3" in length and the interior depth is 1/2". Both molds will come with rubberized molded impressions, as seen in the photos.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pre AD 1000
item #1478566
(stock #05242023A)
Oldbailey Antiques
$895.00
$895.00
This is a large, deeply molded sculpture which would have been used to make appliques for attachment to larger vessels. The piece is 4-5/8" in length and its interior depth is more than 1". It depicts a lotus pod and comes with a rubberized impression. A beautiful piece of sculpture in its own right.
Senatus Consulto
$95.00
$95.00
Interesting device, possible from a lock or attachment for furniture (?), Roman, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.
Attractive with nice green patina.
Size: 55 mm. - quite massive for it's size.
Ex. German Private Collection
Attractive with nice green patina.
Size: 55 mm. - quite massive for it's size.
Ex. German Private Collection
Senatus Consulto
$245.00
$245.00
An interesting small collection of Danish Neolithic / Mesolithic axes.
The lot consist of two early, Mesolithic axes from the hunter / gatherer period. Along with these, three smaller axes from later Neolithic period, 2500-2000 BC: A smaller thinbutted axe, a specialized small axe / chisel and a neolithic imitation of an early type of bronze axe.
Sizes: 9-13,5 cm.
Condition: Nice axes with smaller chips. Nice patinas.
Ex. Private collection.
The lot consist of two early, Mesolithic axes from the hunter / gatherer period. Along with these, three smaller axes from later Neolithic period, 2500-2000 BC: A smaller thinbutted axe, a specialized small axe / chisel and a neolithic imitation of an early type of bronze axe.
Sizes: 9-13,5 cm.
Condition: Nice axes with smaller chips. Nice patinas.
Ex. Private collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1478462
Senatus Consulto
$275.00
$275.00
A large and well-preserved carved stone cylinder seal from the Pre-Dynastic period of Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. mill. BC.
The seal very sharp and engraved in redish stone with two humans or deities holding hands upside-down and strange multi-legged animal.
Size: 26 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: Near Extremely fine.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberl...
The seal very sharp and engraved in redish stone with two humans or deities holding hands upside-down and strange multi-legged animal.
Size: 26 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: Near Extremely fine.
This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberl...
