DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, 3rd Cent. AD

Dimensions:
Length: 7.5 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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#431098

DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, Samaritan, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD

Dimensions:
Length: 7.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm

Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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#211664

DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
Roman period, Samaritan, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD

Dimensions:
Length: 9 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Minor hole on shoulder as shown otherwise intact and in good condition

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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#716365

Extremely rare Roman stone fragments of a Sarcophagus.

Dated from, 100 - 200 AD

Measurements: Height: 17 cm - Width: 20 cm / Sides: Height: 16 cm - Width: 10 cm - Height: 16 cm - Width: 10 cm.

Condition: Intact as excavated. Not repaired and not restored.

Excavated in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land. All items that we offer for sale come with a certificate of authenticity.

This is a nice piece. It's a large, weathered limestone button scarab which dates to the Late Period in Egyptian history (circa 600 B.C.). Measures: 1.2" in length. Condition: Intact with obvious water abrasion to the surface. Provenance provided to purchaser.

For your consideration is this fabulous and large, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, black steatite scarab. Not a burial placement, this scarab would have been worn by someone as a talisman during everyday life, as evidenced by the even polishing over the surface. Item measures 25.58 mm (1 ") in length. Condition: surface polished by natural wear. Item is intact and choice with inscription on the underside...

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this Egyptian green faience amulet of a standing deity. The figure stands erect with the traditional pose featuring the hands at the side. The back is supported by a full dorsal pillar and features a completely intact suspension hole. The figure is worn, but is likely of the standing god Horus, in falcon form. The lower portion of the figure has been lost as well, however the amulet still measures a splendid 1" in height...

Relics of the Nile is proud to present this superb ancient Egyptian bronze Horus Amulet. This bronze has a wonderful olive patina with specks of the bronze underneath showing in spots. The bronze is in solid condition with some crude detail. This amulet shows Horus as a child in his famous seated position with hand to mouth. Also known by Harpocrates in later periods, the child Horus is a very important symbol in ancient Egyptian belief...

Relics of the Nile is very pleased to present this incredible large Egyptian sarcophagus panel depicting two Egyptian gods in profile. The panel stands a truly impressive 23.75" in height and 6" in width! A truly superb display. The panel features two of the Sons of Horus. The Sons of Horus were the guardians of the viscera and their depictions were generally placed over the midsection of the sarcophagus. Depicted on this panel are the sons, Imsety and Duamutef...

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this superb ancient Egyptian funerary panel. This piece is from the top portion of either a funerary box such as an ushabti box or canopic box or from the back of a chair. The peg holes that attached the piece to the remainder of the funerary piece are still present. This is a funerary piece as is displayed by the colors and styles used, as well as the display of the solar disc with royal uraeus...

An interesting and rare motif of a coiled on a Ubaid period stamp seal of the round gable type, Mesopotamia c. 5th.-4th. millenium BC.

Size: c. 20 mm...

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. wide.

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 ...

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. thick.

Condition: Good ...

A very early archaic bronze figure of seated Kore, Italic bronzeage, Etruscan, c. 7th. century BC.

A lovely figure with fine details of Kores archaic features, the elaborate gown and the wonderful expression. She wears a spiked diadem holding her long hair.
Very unusual depiction of Kore half seated, where the usual depiction is a motionless standing image.

Size: c. 69 mm. for the figure alone and 120 mm. incl. the vintage stepped podium.

Ex. Cristian Spinu...

This ancient Egyptian Scarab for Tuthmosis III is more than 3,000 years old. It's from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 9/16” long (14 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

An important and very interesting medieval floor tile, of a 13th.-14th. century English type, used in Noble houses, churches and monasteries in the period.

Size: 13,5-14 cm. on each side and very thick.

Condition: Intact and choice, with minimal detoriation of the glaze.

Ex. Private collection of the art dealer and collector, Jens Larsen, with gallery in Møntergade, Copenhagen, 1950s-2012.

A nice wooden mummy mask of a smaller size, probably late period, mid-late 1st. millenium BC.

Size: 20,7 cm.

Condition: Intact with smaller losses and much wear. Remnants of pigments still visible on the surface in recesses.

Provenance: Old Bavarian collection from the 1930s and onwards.

This is a lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, more than 2,300 years old, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 7/16” long (11 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

This is a lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1200 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 1/2” long (13 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

This is an ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1250 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup. It was chipped by the artisan maker, who then used glaze to lock the piece back in place when it was fired.

This is an ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1250 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 1/2” long (13 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

A very beautiful and very large terracotta head of a young girl, Greece, Hellenistic period, c. 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

Exceptional details with the efeu wreath and elaborate headdress.

Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 8,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, partly corroded, but sound hard, ready to display.

Ex. Collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, Germany, aquired 1980-2006.

An attractive dagger of a child, made in the late neolithic period, Daggertime-bronzeage, c. 2000-1600 BC.

Finely knapped in in a silex with a rare dark brown marsh patina. Tag in white ink from a pre-WWII collection.

Size: 12,1 cm. long

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with a few tiny losses.

Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng. marsh) and Køng mose at Southern Ze...

A high quality specimen of broadbladed silex axes, imitating the celts of the early European bronzeage, made in South East Denmark, during Late Neolithic to early bronzeage periods, ca. 1800-1600 BC.

The axe is partly polished and with visible seams, in a wonderful completely calsified silex stone, so with a fine white patina and iron-oxide markings. Tagged 92 with old collection tags, and with the finding place and date 1885 in pencil - a very early provenance for these.

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A nice classic terracotta head of a young woman, Egypt during the Roman Imperial period, c. 1st. cent. AD.

The head nicely mounted to a large mable plint.

Size: 12 cm. incl. the plint, the head along 5 cm.

Ex. Old Collection from Berlin, bought from the 1930s and onwards!

A very good style terracotta head of a nymph or deity, Hellenistic period of the Greek city states, 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

Large head of a nice Italian / Sicilian style, probably depicting Arethusa.

Size: 8,5 cm. tall.

Ex. Collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, Germany, aquired 1980-2006.

A fine ridged oval close combat mace head, Single Grave period, 3rd. mill. BC.

An oval and yet slightly compressed head with a deep ridged at the middle to attach it to a pole. In an attractive speckled granite stone with tag 187 in white ink from below collection.

Size: c. 95 mm. long.

Condition: Choice Very fine, intact.

Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng. mar...

An attractive glass head of a Lion, in black glass becoming multible colours at the rim, Egyptian, c. Ptolemaic-Roman period, 3rd. cent. BC-1st. century AD.

Size: c. 1,7 x 1,5 cm. and mounted on a much larger black base.

Ex. German collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart,, aquired 1980s-2006 from older collections.

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.

Nice lot of two idol figures of deities incl. Mercury, Roman Imperial period, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

Size: 46 and 43 mm.

Condition: Both w lossses to extremeties, nice patinas.

Ex. German private Collection.

A better large/thick Ushabti, Third Intermediate Period, 21/22th dynasty (ca 1085-713BC)

A blue-green faience shabti, wearing the headband and two hoes. Inscribed shabti with clear hieroglyphs at the lower front. Details are added in black.

Size: 10,3 cm.

Condition: Choice with intact painted details and nice patina.

Old Danish Private Collection.

This ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1200 BC, is from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 7/16” long (11 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

A beautiful and intact torquise faience ushabti, Late Period, ca. 664 to 500 BC.

A mold-formed faience ushabti standing in mummiform with fused legs, holding implements, and with 8 rows of sharp hieroglyphs wrapping around the legs. The face presents with almond eyes, a prominent nose, and a petite chin, all beneath the lappets of the tripartite wig. Covered in beautiful torquise glaze The figure with fine surfaces and of a good style with an appealing facial expression.

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This is a lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1250 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

This is an ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1800 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

A fine condition greek pottery amphora or Kantharos with black and red belt decorations, Southern Italian, c. 4th.-3rd. century BC.

The vessel with twin handles and very elegantly moulded and painted.

Size: c. 10,5 cm. tall and 13,8 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice Very fine, a few tiny edge chips othervise intact.

Ex. Dr. Heim collection, 1970s, sold at Hirsch 2019 / auction 245 lot 175.

A very attractive greek pottery Olpe with black and red belt decorations, Southern Italian, c. 4th.-3rd. century BC.

The jug with a high loop strap handle and extremely nice painting!

Size: 17,5 cm.

Condition: Choice Very fine, a few very small edge chips othervise intact and with the decoration finely preserved.

Ex. Dr. Heim collection, 1970s, sold at Hirsch 2019 / auction 245 lot 175.

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.

Greek Apulian Lekanis, Lady of Fashion - Ca. 350 B.C., from the ancient Greek colony of Apulia, in southern Italy. Terracotta lidded pottery vessel with footed base, dome-shaped lid and knob handle. Lid painted in red-figure style with series of two Lady of Fashion in profile and two palmette panels. The Lekanis was used in antiquity to store soaps and scented perfumes.

A particularly finely painted and sculptured example, painted overall with preserved decoration under a fine patina...

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. German private collectio...

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. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely...

Another substantial Roman silver seal ring with a red carnelian intaglio, 1st.-3rd. cent AD

The ring a typical compressed Roman design and the carnelian stone engraved with a depiction of the Dioskouroi.

Size: c. 24 mm. wide and weighing 8.1 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm. x 16 mm., so it fits the typical ring-finger of a smaller male or a female hand.

Condition: Very fine, intact, but the stone was reset and there's chips to the silver-setting. Stable and we...

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. ...

An ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 400 BC. It is 9/16” long (14 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

An ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 500 BC. It is 9/16” long (14 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

A lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1500 BC, XVIII Dynasty, 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of violet-blue steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and to help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.

A wonderful head of a stargazer idol in a rare hard greyish stone for this type, a female idols of Kiliya type, Anatolia, c. 3000-2500 BC.

The type with a triancular head, pronounced ridge and protuding eyes.

Size: 53 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, some white deposits uncleaned.

Ex Old Munich collection.

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...

A late period Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal in a fine blue Lapis Lazuli, dating to the 8th.-7th. century BC.

Nice core style Assyrian seal depicting the great king hunting a winged beast. His right leg raised of a Peacock bird, with the winged emblem of Ashur above and the crescent and Sun in the fields. Very thick and impressive for a seal in Lapis!

Size: 27 mm. tall and 14-15 mm. thick, which gives an interesting long imprint.

Condition: Good Very fine, typical lo...

A lovely core-style cylinder seal in an agate type of stone probably calchedony, Achaemenid Empire, 550-331 BC.

The seal in a very beautiful realistic style depicting e Kneeling archer (The Great Persian King) aiming at an ibex, a hunting dog is helping him catching the prey and there's an alter for Ahura Mazda behind below a crescent moon above star.

Size: 30 mm. tall and 13 mm. wide, a substantial piece.

Condition: Near Very fine, the engravings are extremely f...