A very thick and massive gold ring with clasping right hands, Roman Imperial Period, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

Typical high shoulders and compressed design. 22+ carats gold.

The depiction of the dextrarum iunctio (handclasp) was highly popular in Roman art. In the Roman world, the right hand was sacred to Fides,the deity of fidelity...

Roman Imperial style terracotta figure of Aphrodites.

She is depicted as a beautiful and voluptious concubine. She is naked from the low waist up and is bending slightly forward to look into the mirror with a comb in her other hand and she has a look of perhaps dissatisfaction on her face. Her elaborate headdress is in the style of the court, early 2nd. century AD at the time of the Emperor Trajan.

Size: c. 46 cm. in height...

A fine style cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-yellowish stone, probably jasper, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.

Sharp low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with winged lions with bearded human heads!

Size: c. 26 mm. tall.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.

NEAR-EASTERN PERSIAN BRONZE MACE-HEAD
Lurestan, Late 2nd/Early 1st Millennium B.C.

A charming Lurestan mace-head with octagonal shaft and faceted knobs around the swollen head, flanked by grooved bands.

Measurements:
Length: 15 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Condition: Perfect condition with natural patina

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Ancient Greek set of bronze wine drinking vessels (Container , strainer with a duck-shaped handle and a drinking bowl)

Dated from, 500 – 300 BC

Measurements: Container: Height: 6.5 cm – Diameter: 8.5 cm
Strainer: Height: 4.3 cm – Length: 14.5 cm
Drinking bowl: Height: 2.8 cm - Diameter 8.5 cm

Condition: Excellent archaeological condition with beautiful patina

The three items (Set) are professionally and nicely mounted on a plexi-glass display stand of high quali...

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...

A high quality depiction in terracotta of the naked Eros standing frontally on base with cornucopia and object, early Roman terracotta sculpture, 1st. century AD.

Adorable figure, standing on a square podium, with fine details.

Size: ca. 15 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type. Perfect surfaces, light dirt adhired.

Ex. Old Private collection, aquired before 1980.

Ancient Roman imperial marble head fragment probably from a wall relief.

Dated from, 100 – 300 AD

Measurements: Height: 11 cm – Width: 9 cm – Height on stand: 20.5 cm

Condition: Untouched as found with nice patina

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

The head is nicely mounted on a plexi-glass display stand of high quality

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A high quality trapezoid stamp seal of the Neo-Babylonian type, 8th.-6th. cent. AD.

unusual and very beatiful stone used to carve this accomplished seal in antiquity. The stone is a banded agate with red inclusions, carved and polished in a an octagonal and pyramidal shape.

The seal engraved with a springing stagg or deer.

Size: 20 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide at the base.

Condition: Choice and intact, minor ancient wear.

Ex...

A lovely figure with fine clasic details Roman, ca. 1st. century AD.

Aprodite is depicted sitting on a rock covered with a robe; she is nude and covering her breasts with both hands. Her legs is folded casually and she wears a elegant headdress with diadem.

Size: 18 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type, completely intact and unrepaired with remnants of original pigments and patina.

Ex. Old Private Collection, aquired before 1980.

This is a bronze Scythian brooch from an ancient Eurasian Steppe culture dating back to the 6th-4th Century B.C. The brooch is shaped like a recumbent deer, with a slender body and pronounced musculature. The legs are folded beneath the body, and the head is large, with round eyes, facial features, and stylized antlers. The reverse side has its original clasp for attachment...

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...

An interesting and finely gilt fragment of Stucco decoration, Egyptian, Late Period-Ptolemaic, later 1st. millenium BC.

The fragment with a man-headed falcon standing left, trampling on a rearing Cobra snake / Ureaus?.

Size: 46 mm.

Condition: Choice and thick and perfectly stable.

Ex. Very old collection from the 1930s (Berlin, Germany)

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...

Authentic ancient, 6th - 5th century B.C. Northern Black Sea Region, Scythian iron short sword – dagger Akinakes, Acinaces, Akinak. Comprising a sturdy, straight double-edged tapering blade, the flattened handle with lobed (Butterfly) guard and double-loop pommel, often called "antenna" pommel. 

REFERENCES: Weapons of the Ancient East by M.V.Gorelik.

Page: 202-203. No.36.

Page 204-205. No.42.

Page 206-207. No.7 

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An exciting ancient Egyptian Scarab,c. 1500 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. The bottoms of many scarabs were made to suggest human faces. 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.

Interesting and attractive gold Quatrefoil openwork pendant with small loop at one side and an engraved cross in the center, Roman-Darkage c. 4th.-6th. cent. BC.

A heavy hanger, very attractive. The gold is almost pure and around 22 carats or so. The central cross was deliberately erased at one point in antiquity, which could have been done by pagans / romans in the late antiquity.

Size: 19-20 mm. in diameter and weighing a solid 3.45 grams.

Ex. West German Priva...

A larger and well-engraved Chalchedony stamp seal, Neo-babylonian period of Mesopotamia, 8th.-6th. century BC.

Trapezoid shape, decorated with a fine style image of Marduk, the main god of the early Neo-Babylonian Empire, standing in front of a complicated structure with podiums and towers, crescent above. Complete with suspension hole through the centre.

A beautiful seal with complete brownish calcified surfaces.

Size: ca. 28 mm. tall, 21 mm. wide.

Co...