A fine hemispheric gable stamp seal with piercing and engraved in the base with a nice image of the Sun, Uruk Period, Mesopotamia, 4th. millenium BC.

Size: c. 20 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Nice very fine, smooth wear and patina.

Comes with imprint.

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

A very large and scarce round gable stamp seal in black serpentine stone, Anatolia, c. 4th. millenium BC.

The fine seal with central drilling and carved with an animal on the base.

Size: 35 mm...

Interesting and rare gable seal in a scarce oval form and lovely dark red jasper stone, depicting 4-legged animal, probably feline, Levantine or Anatolian 4th. millenium BC.

A very attractive archaic carving and large for the Jasper stone used.

Size: 30 mm...

A stunning terracotta figure of Horse and Rider, Parthian Empire, 1st-3rd. cent. AD.

The tall bearded figure emerging from the body of the horse, wearing folded cap, the horse with applied disc eyes, traces of decoration. Their bodies is blending into a single, triangular form, with the head and upper body of the man directly behind the horse’s head. Finely detailed features of a mature Parthian horseman, probably nobility.

Size: 111 mm...

Interesting stamp seal in white stone, Egyptian inspired style of the western Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

A round white stone seal with a fine quality engraving in a fine Egyptianized style of Syria, 2nd. millenium BC. The seal depicts a Vulture on top of a reclining horned animal, probably a bull, and a snake in between.

Size: c. 19 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, very sharp imprint, Top of handle with loop lost in antiquity...

Interesting cylinder seal carved in greyish black stone, with worshippers standing either side of the Tree of Life, with the winged emblem of Ashur / Assur above. Nice Neo-Assyrian style and fine details.

Size: 20 mm. tall and 10 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine, light wear and completely intact.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and his imprint.

BRONZE SPIKE-BUTTED AXE-HEAD
PERSIAN, IRON AGE, 1200 – 1000 BC

Dimensions:
Length: 19.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Height on stand: 17 cm

Very good condition with beautiful patina

Nicely set of an acrylic “Plexi-glass” display stand

Complete and intact with earthy encrustations around the shaft, one spike slightly bent.

Cast using the lost wax method; a spike-butted axehead, the short, cylindrical shaft tube with three cords across each side, lead...

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...

Interesting and unusual small stamp with a beautiful symethric engraving, Post-Hittite states of Western Mesopotamia, c. early 1st. millenium BC.

Size: 11 x 10,5 mm.

Condition: Extremely fine, attractive patinated Hematite.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006...

The large seal of the hemispheric form and probably Parthian or early Sasanian, so like 0-500 AD, could be earlier though.

Done in a fantastic stone type - black with a spiders web of lighter colours. Attractive in hand. The shape of this stamp seal was probably invented by the Neo-Babylonians and continuued to be made in the near east until the end of the Sasanian period. The base is engraved with an unidentified cruciform symbol.

Size: c. 22 mm...

A very interesting and rare early amulet seal, carved with archaic patterns and drill tecnique of the 6th.-5th. millenium BC, Mesopotamia.

The amulet in dark green stone is very rare and shaped almost like an insict carved on each broadside with 6 globules within a gritpattern and a typical Halaf gritpattern on the small side. Loop probably lost to wear in antiquity so a new hole was made drilling one globule through.

Size: 24 mm. long and 12 mm. wide.

Conditio...

A fine specimen of the earliest metal daggers known, BMAC / Indus, Chalcolithic period, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting and collectable dagger! Leafshaped blade without ribs and a very long tang.

Size: 19,8 cm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, choice green patina and great metal with earthern deposits.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.

A collection of 7 ancient beads, incl. massive early trailed beads from late Achaemenid to the Islamic period of the Ancient Near East, c. 4th. cent. BC- 8th cent. AD Three beads are very large, the 4 other beads are medium size to smaller. The largest bead is c. 32 mm. wide and massive. The smallest c. 13 mm. To be researched and should resell individually for more than $100 each!

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

An interesting and rare stamp seal of a triangular form with a carved base and loop, Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

The seal is particularly finely engraved with a horned animal and some interesting 'glyphs' in a freese above. With Egyptian inspiration and probably from the Middle Assyrian period, made close to the Egypt border.

Size: 14 x 11 mm.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Comes with Old collection card and imprint.

Provenance: Gustav...

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. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, some uncleaned 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 collection between 1985 - 2000s,...

A massive and rare excarvated bronze vessel, likely for the storage of liquids, Byzantine, 6th.-9th. century AD.

Horisontically ribbed body and carinated vertically ribbed shoulder with funnel mouth.

Made in solid metal in a fine vase-like shape, with holes for attaching it to chains. A utility vessel, used for containing foods or liquids.

Size: 34-35 cm. wide and around 35,5 cm. tall, weight 4,2 kilograms - a HUGE piece for this early vessel!

Condit...

A fine large stamp seal of rare low cone-shaped form, Northern Mespopotamian, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal shows an animal in a artful stylized style.

Size: 29 mm. in diameter and 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, almost intact, fine and glossy stone.

This seal was aquired as early as 1988 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

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

A fine silver ancient Islamic belt buckle from the earliest fase in the Islamic domination of the world, 7th.-9th. century AD.

A beautiful and perfectly intact belt buckle completely covered in black patina and in solid silver. Fine ornamentation.

Size: ca. 6 cm. long.

Condition: Superb! A partidularly fine specimen with completely black patina.

Ex. Ib Olsen Collection