A late Halaf or Early Ubaid Period stamp seal, Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic period, Mesopotamia c. 5th. millenium BC.
Interesting type with handle and engraved with a criss-cross pattern and four perforated globes or pellets in each corner of the base.
Size: 33 mm. long and 24 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine and intact...
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...
Interesting North-Mesopotamian type and probably from the Halaf period, although the round shape is rare for this period, we date this 6th.-4th. millenium BC.
Size: 27 mm. in diameter - a substantial seal.
Condition: Very fine, with the top the handle lost to extensive use, othervise attractive...
A very nice rectangular gable seal engraved with stylized birds (?), Ubaid period of Mesopotamia, 4th. mill BC.
Size: 21 x 18 mm.
Condition: Attractive Very fine specimen, intact with even smooth wear.
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...
Interesting cylinder seal, probably in faience, engraved with symethric patterns, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr, 3300-2900 BC.
Size: 30 mm. tall and 10 mm. wide.
Condition: Very fine.
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 choice and attractive stamp seal of the Ubaid period in blackstone, Mesopotamia, c. 5th.-4th. mill. BC.
Oval shape with low handle and a very complicated grit-pattern engraved in the base.
Size: 22 x 18 mm.
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 seal that can be dated to mature stoneage, Mesopotamian, Pre-Halaf-early Halaf period, c. 6th. millenium BC.
Interesting early seal, rectangular with a fine grit-pattern in the base and a pierced handle or loop.
Size: 32 mm. long and 18 mm...
Á nice rectangular gable type of stone seal, engraved with a 4-legged animal, Anatolia, Pre-Hittite period, c. 3rd. mill. BC.
Size: 23 x 15 mm.
Condition: Good very fine, really nice.
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...
Attractive rectangular seal, carved in a glossy red-brown stone with low handle and gritt-pattern in the base, Mesopotamia, Halaf / Early Ubaid period, c...
A finely made and substantial glass flask, Roman Emperial, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
In green glass with a wide folded mouth and slightly curving walls.
Size: c. 10,3 cm. tall and 4,4 cm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine, intact with fine silver irridescence and sound.
Ex. European Collection, comes with COA.
Large fragment of a Greek red figure Crater, c. 4th. cent. BC.
Figural decoration with part of a female.
Size: c. 15 cm. long and 8 cm. wide.
Ex. Old private Collection, comes with COA from Clive Sawyer 'Antiquities and Ancient Coins'
A very rare and interesting large fragment of a sculptural torquise blue faience vessel with moulded decoration, Egypt, probably Amarna period, 14th. century BC.
The fragment represent up to 40% of what was once a hemispheric low bowl with pseudo handles and black and torquise glaze. Moulded decoration of large snake and the tail of another which would have adorned the other side.
Size: 13-14 cm. long.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, ex old European collection. ...
Lovely bronze figure of Hercules in a typical youthful Etruscan style with no beard, Late Etruscan or Gallo-Etruscan, c. 4th.-2nd. century BC.
Herakles, the mythological hero, is depicted standing in contrapposto, his weight resting on his right leg while his left leg is slightly bent. He is depicted naked, except for his cloak, made of the skin of a lion, either the Nemean lion or the lion of Cithaeron; he has used the paws of the animal to tie the skin beneath his neck, and has its ...
An ancient Egyptian white steatite scarab, with finely engraved anatomical features such as clypeus, prothorax and elytra. The reverse is detailed with hieroglyphs, including the engraved depiction of a beetle scarab with the sun disk, a basket, a feather of Maat and a papyrus stem. The amulet is pierced longitudinally for suspension.
Origin: Egypt
Period: 1539 - 664 B.C.
Date: 18th - 25th Dynastie
Material: Steatite
Dimension: 1,3 cm. ...
Painting on Egyptian pottery is not very common before the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC), but appears often in the late 18th Dynasty. This blue-decorated pottery was first recognised on a bigger scale at the palace of king Amenhotep III (1388-1351/50 BC). This sherd probably comes from the palace site at Tell el-Amarna, built by Amenhotep III's son, king Akenaten
Amarna period painted vessels were mostly storage jars made from Nile-silt clay and would originally have contained luxury li...
Shabti for The Beloved God's Father, the wab-priest, the Chief of the Scribes, Amen-hotep
A parallel was sold by Puhze Gallery cat. 16 no 282. There is also a similar example in the Louvre
Origin: Egypt
Period: New Kingdom, 21th Dynasty,
Date: c. 1075 - 945 B.C
Material: Fayence
Dimension: 12,5 cm.
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A choice and elaborate bottle made of yellowish glass. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.
Interesting style!
Size: c. 8,2 cm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine with beautiful irridescence.
Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!