Ancient Egyptian Amarna blue Faience Ring with snake 2,0 cm.

Provenance: Old German collection befor 1983

Condition: look at pictures

If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de

Hor or Hori Worker – Hr.i

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...

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

Large and impressive dagger in hand. Flat, leafshaped blade and very long, straight tang.

Size: 23,7 cm long.

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

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

Egyptian Amarna blue Faience Ring 1,7 cm.

Provenance: Old German collection befor 1983

Condition: look at pictures

If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de

Two-finger amulet, Egypt, Late Period, 664 - 322 B.C.

The stylized amulet carved in grey-black stone.

Size: 21 mm. long.

Condition: Very fine, intact with minor wear and fine patination.

Two-finger amulets were used for the dead and were often found on the lower left of the torso. This is the area of the incision that was made during the mummification process in order to remove the internal organs. These amulets were meant magically to heal the wound...

Glazed jug of globular body and evert neck. Three raised knobs around the shoulder. Arching strap handle with tiny knobs at the topmost point, standing on a bulged base.
The upper side covered with a black glaze that turns into a red-brown in places.
For the same type, cf. vase no. 126, p. 75 in: J. W. Hayes. Greek and Italian Black-Gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1984.
Ceramic
Greek Campanian, 3rd century BC
H...

HIGHLY DECORATED POTTERY DOUBLE-FLASK KOHL UNGEUNTARIUM
BYZANTINE EMPIRE, 5th Century AD

Incised with large palm branches and geometric design

Measurements:
Height: 10.5 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm

Beautifully mounted on a custom plexi-glass display stand.

Found near Jerusalem, Israel

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A large and attractive stone jar, Mesopotamia, Sumer c. 2800-2400 BC.

With the finely concave walls, similar to a jar found in the Royal tombs of Queen Puabi, 2600-2450 BC and jars from Jiroft in this period, dates this jar to the Sumerian period.

The stone used is a rare and very lovely pink calcite, some of the colour probably patina. the stone is banded in clear bands and semi-transperant when lighted. With cream inclusions.

Size:13,8 cm. wide and 9,6 cm...

A very unusually and rare early security padlock from a strongbox, probably late 16th. century.

Perfectly working lock with original brass-soldering or coppering at the base. A heavy lock with a specially produced brass and iron key with elaborate slot for the period - very rare.

Size: c. 115 mm. tall and 61 mm. wide, the key is 103 mm. long.

Condition: Superb for this period, completely intact with fine brown patina.

Ex...

A superb and exceptionally large pottery bowl with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern on the interior. Seljug period, 11th.-12th. centuries, Near East.

The finest bowl we've seen of the type. With silvery iridescence on the surface of both the interior and the exterior. Very beautiful colours. The patina and fine glass like gloss is difficult to grasp in our pictures but is very visible in hand.

Size: 23,7 cm. in diameter and 11 cm...

A pristine Iron doorhammer in the finest Late Medieval / Gothic style, European 14th.-15th. century.

The hammer head in the shape of a deers head and the horn and shaft finely twisted, the nails for inserting it into a thick wooden door are still finely preserved as well.

Size: 27 cm. total length.

Condition: Superb! Very unusual item for this early period...

A massive sub-rectangular seal with high handle and perforation, in black large grained stone, Halaf period, 6th...

Lot of three very attractive and massive Sasanian stamp seals in beautiful stones, all with engravings relative to the Gilgamesh myth in low relief, 3th.-6th. cent. AD.

A nice lot that we bundle to safe listing time!

Diameter: 30, 31 and 26 mm.!

Condition: Fine to Very Fine.

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

A centerpiece agate stone bead from over a thousand year

Interesting and attractive tanged bronze dagger with large broad blade, North Caspian Sea area, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

The leaf-shaped blade with a broad mid-rib and raised shoulders, short tang.

Size: 29 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine, choice green patina and great metal.

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

A fine Anatolian stamp seal of the Uruk style of the 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

A finely engraved larger stone stamp seal, and with a horned animal in the base in deep relief.

Size: 26 mm. in diameter and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good VF, much uncleaned deposits, quite attractive.

This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

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

This is a fascinating ancient Egyptian alabaster vase, c. 1200 BC, 4" tall. It's intact and made from a rough piece of alabaster, with its cracks filled in while it was still forming underground. It was purchased at an antique market in Marin, CA.

A lovely and rare stamp seal depicting two horned animals mating, West-Mesopotamia, c. 2nd.-1st. mill. BC.

The seal is exceptionally well-carved for the type with a four-side and pierced handle atop of the rectangular base. The stone is even dark green. Rare depiction!

Size: 22 x 19 mm. and 13,5 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine for the type.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and...