A nice early powder flask, Greater Persia, shaped as the first stomach of the Camel with fine engravings.
Size: 25 cm.
Condition: Intact, but with much patina and wear.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection and the flask comes with an identity card from the collection, added in 1992.
A beautiful larger hammered silver bowl, Sassanian Empire, 300-600 AD.
Size: ca. 17 cm. wide and 6 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice and intact, toned silver with patches of earthern cuprite encrustations that can be removed.
Ex. US Private Collection
A scarce tall stamp, Assyro-Babylonian period, probably Levantine, carved in a brown-red stone, c. 800 BC.
The seal carved with an animal.
Size: 22 mm. tall and 13 mm...
Interesting and rare Neo-Assyrian or Neo-babylonian double stamp seal of blue glass, early 1st. mill...
Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in marble or another calsite stone, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.
Nice substantial piece!
Size: 21 mm tall and 15 mm...
A concave cylinder seal in white-beige stone. The seal is carved with an elaborate pattern of Cruciforms and lines, Mesopotamia 3300-2900 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...
Attractive seal, carved in green-black stone with a knob handle, Western Asia, Neo-Hittite states, c. 1200-800 BC
Triangular seal plate, engraved with a 4-legged animal, struck by an arrow. The knob handle engraved wioth grit-pattern.
Diameter: 19 mm. Height: 16 mm.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact with fine dessert patina.
Reff...
A nice larger hemispheric stamp seal engraved in the base with a Cruciform design and pierced through, Mesopotamian, Ubad, c. 5th. millenium BC.
Size: c. 23 mm...
A nice lot of two provenanced stamp seals, Mesopotamia, Halaf period, c. 6th.-5th...
A nice lot of two provenanced stamp seals, Mesopotamia, Ubaid period, 5th.-4th...
A lovely hemispheric stamp seal engraved in the base with a Cruciform design and pierced through, Mesopotamian, Late Ubad- Early Uruk period, 4th. millenium BC.
Size: c...
A finely carved stamp seal with, Uruk period, c. 4th. mill. BC.
The round seal is carved with two mirrored animals.
Size: c. 17 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Good Very fine.
This seal comes with hard impression and COA.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Interesting stone stamp seal found in Harran, easternmost Turkey, prior to 1991. Harran was founded as a real city at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center.
This seal is engraved with distinctive spoked wheel in the base, so we can date as 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC...
A squat early cylinder seal in cream marble or calsite. The seal is carved with the 'eye' or circle/rhomboid form - a characteristic and significant design for the Period.
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 owner...
Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in marble or another calsite glossy stone, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.
Impressive size in hand in a beautiful stone, scarce!
Size: 17 mm tall and 15 mm. thick!
Condition: Nice very fine, intact with blackish discolouration in parts.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländ...
A fine and rare late Pre-Dynastic / Late Jemdet Nasr period, Mesopotamian Cylinder seal of translucent Alabaster, early 3rd. millenium BC.
The seal carved in high relief with a fine rendering of centipedes.
Size: 28 mm. tall and c. 15 mm. thick.
Condition: Very fine, old loss at one side, othervise extremely fine. Nice patina and attractive.
OBS! Comes with the original ID card and imprint from below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberlän...
A very large and impressive Neolithic period stamp seal, provenanced to Amüg-Ebene near Antioch in Western Mesopotamia / Eastern Anatolia, c. 6th. millenium BC of even earlier.
Rectangular seal of grey stone with a long ridged pierced handle and a grit pattern in the base.
Size: 40 mm. long and 23 mm. wide, c. 12 mm. tall.
Condition: Near VF, one corner chipped, lightly affecting the imprint. With earthern deposits.
Comes with the original 1995 ID ca...
An extralarge bronze seal with a loop on the back and elaborate floral design, Bactria, 3rd. millenium BC.
Very impressive round seal depicting a flower with petals in the openwork style.
The seal belongs to one of the varied mostly circular metal “stamp seals” relief cast in bronze or copper alloy, but more rarely in silver or gold, which is classified as so-called “compartmented seal” (a term first used in 1943 by the British archaeologist Stuart Pigott – 1943....