An interesting and scarce stamp seal, carved and finely polished in white stone, perhaps marple, and engraved in the base with globules, Uruk period, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Size: c. 16 mm...
Interesting seal or gaming token perhaps with an elaborate carving of a Sun symbol, probably 1st. millenium BC.
Rare piece carved in either a very durable bone or steatite (?), beautiful patina.
Size: 18 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Interesting early scaraboid stamp seal, shaped as a stylized Egyptian Scarab, North-Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. mill. BC.
Size: 18 x 16 mm.
Condition: Nice very fine, lovely deep relief.
Comes with the original collection Id-card and 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 rare type dated in newer research to the Neolithic period of Eastern Anatolia / Northern Mesopotamia, 7th.-6th. mill. BC.
Drop or leaf shaped amuletic seal with tiny gritt patterns and loop at the top.
Size: 24 mm. long and 11 mm...
A finely preserved small inscribed foundation cylinder, Neo-Babylonian Empire, c. 8th-6th. century BC.
The barrel shaped piece fully inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform. Untranslated but such cylinders usually has been attributed to Nebucadnezzar II, 604-562 B.C. They were stuck into buidings walls and is often long texts with praises to the builder and the gods, usually a king, just like foundation bricks.
Size: 60 mm. long and c. 25-26 mm...
Darkage-Viking silver pendant in a Lunar or crecent shape with a loop, c. 600-900 AD.
Attractive and wearable today with decorations on the surface.
Size: 26 mm. tall.
Condition: Intact.
Ex. German Private Collection.
Interesting pottery jar with handle and fine decoration in red on beige ground, Ancient Near East c. 2nd. millenium BC.
Size: 15,8 cm. wide and 11,3 cm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, with short crack and small chip nicely restored and not visible.
Ex. Old Danish Collection.
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.
A very attractive saraboid seal, carved on the upper side with three section of grit-patterns, and on the seal base with a frontal stylized Rams head emblem, Anatolia, probably costal region, 2nd. millenium BC.
As a very precious material in antiquity, Lapis seals were expensive and thus scarcely seen today. This particular stone is in a very deep good color.
Size: c. 15 mm. long.
Condition: Extremely fine, light deposits.
Ex...
A high quality and massive Mesopotamian cylinder seal carved in dark serpentine stone, North-West Mesopotamia, c. 18th.-16th. century BC.
The seal is profusely engraved with a complex depiction of deities and animals. A central godess is sort of flying with her hands touching two creatures above. A worshipper in front with hands raised. Aray of animals and smaller figures including a Centaur below.
Size: 44-45 mm. tall. and 15 mm...
Larger seal carved in almost black-green serpentine, the seal carved with an introduction to the enthroned almighty deity, by a worshipper dragged before the throne by a female deity. Dating The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, 22nd.-21st. century BC.
A nice seal with deep relief in the fine old style, cuneiform inscription behind the visiting worshipper.
Size: 24-25 mm. tall.
Condition: Very fine, intact with some wear to surface, but a...
Black Hematite seal with nice carvings, dated late in the Babylonian period, c. 18th-16th. cent. BC
Scene with intercessory goddess before God in ascending posture, male, crescent moon, fox, monkey, lion standard.
Size: 30 mm. tall and 13-14 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, attractive seal and fully intact.
Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and hard imprint.
A finely carved late- to Neo-Assyrian black stone cylinder seal, depicting a winged matured bearded deity with helmet hunting a running animal in high relief, above is star and crescent, mid-to late Assyrian.
Size: 21-22 mm. tall and 10 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine and glossy, very sharp imprint.
Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and hard imprints.
A very nice and quite interesting cylinder seal in a hard black stone with white inclusions on one side, Late-Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian period, c. 12th. cent.-9th. cent. AD.
A wonderful depiction of a 'Scorpioman' and a 'fishman', both depicted as winged matured men with long beards and pointy hats or helmets. Their lower bodies evolve into a fishtail and a scorpions tail. All within a heering pattern border.
Size: 29-30 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine. Finely pr...
A very finely carved late- to Neo-Assyrian red stone cylinder seal, depicting a human headed, winged demon with Scorpios tail and a large Bull. In between them a tree and above star and crescent.
Interesting and beautiful composition, probably depicting Pazuzu. Beautiful jasper -like stone, quite hard.
Size: 25 mm. tall and 12 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact and sharp with minimal chip to the very rim, not affecting the depiction.
Provena...
A beautiful high quality early Mesopotamian cylinder seal, Isin Larsa period, (c. 2025 BC – c. 1763 BC).
The haematite cylinder seal showing the introduction to God with a worshipper, a deity and the prince in Syrian clothing, in between a bull standing on it's hind legs. To be researched!
Size: 20-21 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: About Extremely fine. Not much wear and quite sharp for type.
Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. ...
A larger black serpentine cylinder seal, showing a the Great King battling a winged griffin with bird-like features, star and other symbols in the fields. Achaemenid, c. 550-332 BC.
Nice core Persian style for the medium.
Height: 34-35 mm and with a diameter of 12 mm.
Condition: Very fine for the type and basically intact with minor chips and smooth wear.
Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and his hard imprint (...
A wonderful style large black serpentine cylinder seal, showing a mounted King hunting a Bull in full freight, a bird in the top and symbols of the Sun and Moon, Middle-assyrian, 14th - 11th century BC.
The scene is quite rare with the detailed bearded mounted king.
Height: 35 mm. tall. and with a diameter of 11 mm.
Condition: Very fine, extremely fine details, but with a repaired hairline crack through the middle (professionally done).
Provenance: Th...