Large ornate vessel with wide funnel-shaped mouth and vertical handles alternating with raised left hands. The hands enhanced with stripes. Dots on the back of the hand, the forefinger and the little finger.
On the shoulder metopes with painted panels and dotted spaces over ivy garlands. For a closely related vase cf. no. 211 in: Electa Napoli. L’art des peoples italiques. Geneva 1993.
Ceramic
Daunian, Subgeometric II B, 475-425 BC
H. 28 cm (11 in)
D...

Single-handled vase with cushion-shaped body and an inward folding rim to prevent the liquid from spilling out. Standing on a ring foot.
The black glaze turned red on the inside and around the foot. The shape is also known as kothon or plemochoe (on hight foot).
Ceramic
Greek, 5th century BC
D. 13.8 cm (5.4 cm)
W. over handle 16.7 cm (6.6 in)
H...

POTTERY WINE PITCHER
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd - 1st B.C.

Cylindrical-shaped neck, ring base with and a single handle Measurements:
Height: 16 cm
Diameter: 14 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm

Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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# 9605

Rare Attic red-figure cup-skyphos with draped young men.
The athletes on the left wear the spiked wreath for the winner of the torch-race and stand opposite draped youths.
Some hold a strigilis in their outstretched right hand.
The scene represents a ceremony performed after winning the torch-race.
In this type of race, a torch was passed in a relay. The goal was to finish the race with the torch still burning...

Large bulbous vessel topped by cylindrical spouts and a twofold handle between them. One spout with a red strainer on the top, the other with red wash inside and a strainer on the base.
Decorated with blue-black lines, wave scrolls, an undulating line with ivy leaves and a chain design. Ornaments below the handle, floral motifs near the base.
For another larger than usual example with comparable decoration, cf. Beazley Database, vase no...

Shallow plate nicely decorated with red-orange banding, contrasting well with the pale brown clay.
The center and the edge to the slightly raised rim with neatly incised grooves. Concentric ridges also on the outside face. Standing on a low ring foot.
Ceramic
Daunian, Sub Geometric III, 4th century BC
D. 19.3 cm (7.6 in)
Intact and fine. Fresh preservation of the applied colors with minor wear in places...

Rare pouring vessel in the form of a sphinx shown recumbent on a raised base.
The fantastic creature shows a beautiful female head with chubby facial features. The curly hair is entwined with ivy leaves.
The imposing lion body with powerful clawed paws and short wings attached to the sides. The cord around the neck is knotted between the breasts.
The figure is conceived as a pouring vessel. Next to the wing and the rear handle is a raised ridge with a sieve-like inlet...

Ancient Greek. Campanian, c. 4th Century BC.

A highly attractive Campanian black-glazed dish with impressed floral design at the center. The piece with a finely preserved glaze and slight iridescence.

Diameter: 14,5 cm.

Condition: Choice nearly superb but with a minimal chip to the underside of the rim, only visible from the back.

Ex German collection, aquired between 1972-1994.

Flat-bottomed aryballos with two neatly incised male busts showing big eyes and pointed chins. The hair is tied in a tuft (krobylos) by a fillet and falls gently along the shoulder.
The busts alternate with geese. Rosettes in the field. Radiating strokes on shoulder and rim.
Best parallel for the style is Utrecht Univ. 60, Male sirens facing swan, in: D.A. Amyx, Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period (1988), 180:B-7.
Reconstituted from fragments...

PIANTED POTTERY JUGLET
Dated from, 330 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great

Dimensions:
Height: 9.5 cm
Diameter: 7.5 cm
Height on stand: 12 cm
Condition: Intact with nice earthy patina

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical ...

Pagenstecher lekythos showing a goose with high swung neck, massive body with distinct wing tips, and detailed feet.
The beak once rendered with white color, faint discoloration of the eye. Above the bird a dot rosette.
Ascending tendrils on the sides, a linear palmette on the back.
The decoration scheme is characteristic for the Sicilian Marianopoli-Gela Group.
The vase is quite heavy and thus thick-walled – no doubt to limit the volume of the precious liquid it ...

Brown-glazed Apulian plate with gently raised, shallow floor. The low sloping rim with a flat top. Standing on a low ring foot. Faint traces of fingertips around the foot where held when dipped into the glaze medium. Covered with a red-brown glaze.
For a related plate, cf. item no. 107 in: John Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto 1984.
Ceramic
Apulian, 350-300 BC
D. 14.9 cm (5.9 in)
H. to rim 4.2 cm...

Handmade Daunian kyathos with horn-like projections on top of the high strap handle.
The pierced face of the handle with geometric decoration in orange and dull black.
The bottom of the bowl decorated with an hourglass pattern consisting of opposite black and red triangles.
The base with broad bands and a cross over a diamond motif at center.
The piece impresses with the fineness and radiance of the clay, as well as the vibrancy of the colors.
Exhibited 1993/9...

An extremely rare and important Etruscan offer bowl (omphalos), made in thick terracotta glazed pottery, 400-300 BC.

This shallow terracotta bowl is moulded after bronze vessels and has a dome-like omphalos emerging from its interior. Around the omphalos are deep relief decorations. Very rare in terracotta.

The exterior is finely glazed and the bowl has two holes for hanging, typical for the Etruscan ware.

Size: ca. 20,5-21 cm.. (diameter) Extremely large and ver...

DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd Century BC

Dimensions:
Length: 8 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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POTTERY WINE PITCHER
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd - 1st Century B.C.

Nicely made with a cylindrical-shaped neck and a ring base

Dimensions:
Height: 15 cm
Width: 10 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm

Condition: Neck/handle professionally repaired hard to see otherwise intact

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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#811048

Buff colored ointment vase with the characteristic wide mouth, globular body, and high conical foot.
The neck and most of the foot covered with red-brown glaze. Concentric bands around the upper part of the body.
For a related example, cf. CVA Cambridge (MA), Fogg Museum and Gallatin Collections, 13, pl. (339) 1.1. Beazley vase no. 1001443.
Ceramic
East Greek, 6th century BC
H. 11.2 cm (4.4 in)
D. body 7.5 cm (3 in)
Intact, surface slightly worn. ...

Two-handle Cypriot juglet decorated with groups of concentric circles to each side of the shoulder and narrow bands around the spherical body.
The tall neck flaring to a funnel-shaped mouth; the handles attached to the neck-ridge and the shoulder. Standing on a narrow disc-base.
Hard-fired ceramic with polished orange-brown slip, decorated with black paint.
Closely related, slightly larger, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1003687.
Ceramic
Cypriot, Middle Iron Age,...