Daunian krater with globular body and short funneled mouth. The vertical loop handles on the shoulder area alternate with two red colored stumps.
Brown-red linear decoration around the body, wavy lines at the handle area, hanging semicircles inside the funnel opening.
One handled reattached with bone glue, a medium that was in use until the 1950s.
For a related example, cf. inv. no. 1912,1220.9 in the British Museum database...
A very interesting and rare motif on a massive cylinder seal in white stone (marble?), Mesoopotamia, c. 3000-2700 BC.
The seal artfully engraved with an animal fight between an elephant, Lion and gazelle. Very thick seal that gives an impressive imprint.
Size: 28 mm. tall and c. 17 mm. wide.
Condition: Near Very fine, intact, but with some corr. to c. 1/3 of the engraving...
A superb quality Islamic bowl, Islamic, 12th century A.D. (494 AH – 597 AH).
Pearly white glaze with Sgraffito decoration (relief), pottery bowl with flaring body rising from a short foot. The sides decorated with a beautiful Sgraffito pattern of ovals and center and rim decorated with splashes of brown.
Condition: Superb, fine patina.
Size: 9,4 cm. wide and approx 4,8 cm. high.
Ex...
Rare ancient Egyptian opaque blue glass pendant in the shape of a pomegranate with yellow and white details.
For comparable amulets see:
Louvre Museum, Paris, E 2284 ; AF 2600 and N 1850 ; AF 2312
British Museum, London, EA48064 and EA68538
Petrie Museum UC22890
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 11.215.446
Date: Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th - 20th Dynasty, ca. 1570 - 1070 B.C.
Material: Glass
Size: ca...
Oil Lamp
Biblical, Holy Land
Late Bronze Age
1550 – 1200 BC
“Time of Moses”
Gracefully displayed in a beautiful wooden frame which will definitely add a unique touch and addition to any room in any house
Measurements:
Length: 14 cm -
Width: 14.5 cm
Frame dimensions:
Height: 43 cm
Width: 43 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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A very nice lot of stone stamp seals, and a greenstone axe amulet, Anatolia/Mesopotamia, c. 4th.-1st. mill. BC. (10)
The lot also Includes a beautiful red-black stone seal with grit pattern, dating Ubaid, 4th. mill. BC, a tablet seal with decorations on all sides, and smaller later stamp seals.
The seals comes with the original ID-card from below collection.
Size: Up to c. 17 mm...
Greek terracotta figurine portraying a nursing woman. Such a depiction is considered a kourotrophor: a protector or nurturer of children. She is wearing a chiton and a veil and she is nursing a naked boy. Likely Etruscan or Sicilian, ca. 5th.-4th. century BC.
Size: c. 14,8 cm. tall and 7 cm. deep.
Condition: Choice and intact still with some of it's pigment preserved.
Ex. Old Private collection, aquired before 1980.
Ancient, circa 3rd century A.D. Gray schist stone head of Buddha, Ancient region of Gandhara, Kushan Empire period...
A very attractive large stamp seal of the hemispheric design / round gable form, Late Ubaid to Uruk period of central-northern Mesopotamia, 4th. millenium BC.
Finely polished seal in a nice black serpentine stone, and carved with a scarce and peculiar pattern of cross angles under symethric horisontal lines!
Size: 31 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Nice VF, some smooth wear but intact and with a nice ancient patina...
A concave cylinder seal in white-beige stone. The seal is carved with an elaborate pattern of Cruciforms and lines, Mesopotamia 3300-2900 BC.
The Jemdet Nassr Period in seal manifacturing,3300-2900 BC, were spreading from Southern Mesopotamia, where a great number of administrative cuneiform tablets and seals came from. Such seals was used to impress pictures or descriptions into soft, prepared clay. These seals guaranteed the authenticity of marked ownership: as such, they were instr...
Interesting conoid shaped stamp seal in black stone, probably serpentine, engraved on the base with a deer with large antlers and on the upperside with unidentified engravings. Greater Mesopotamia area and porabably from the Ubaid/Urum period 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Super nice stylized engraving of the deer! There's certainly some engravings on the upperside as well but uncleaned and unresearched.
Size: 255 mm. in diameter and c. 18 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Ve...
Moto Scarab 2,2cm.
Condition: look at pictures.
From an old German collection.
If you are interested, feel free to send me a offer a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
A very attractive and rare large door lock with a finely engraved plate, late renaissance period, Southern Germany, 16th. century.
Exceptional quality workmanship and a superb floral engraving on the front.
Size: 26 cm. long and 14,5 cm. wide.
Condition: Superb! A very tight lock of great uncorroded metal with a finely maintained greyish and black patina.
Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997. Purcha...
POTTERY OIL LAMP WITH A CROSS-SHAPED HANDLE
Byzantine Empire, 5th – 6th Century AD
Ancient Byzantine pottery oil lamp with a looped handle in the form of a cross.
Measurements:
Length: 12.5 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Condition: Perfect condition with beautiful natural patina
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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#78375
Solid cast, the bronze cobra with flaring hood and bulging eyes, curved along the back of the hood, its head crowned by a solar disk, the body once inlaid, with a tenon at the base. 5 1/4 inches high including the tenon. Suspension loop on back of head. V.G. Collection Brussels, 1975.
You are considering a very attractive ancient Roman black stone beads nicely recomposed in the shape of a grape bunch earrings
Dated from, 100 AD
Height: 5.5 cm
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A very attractive stamp seal in a red brown glossy stone and a small perforated handle, Mesopotamia Uruk period, probably 3rd. millenium BC.
Finely engraved in the base with several animals!
Size: 24 mm. wide (diameter) and 14 mm. tall.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, b...
Of a fine early Roman style, c. 1st. century AD and with inspiration from archaic art. Light red clay with a beige overlay. die-formed. Standing Aphrodite with her cloak wrapped around her legs and holding a shell in each hand. Provincial?! Head, one foot and large parts of the shells are missing.
Height: 16 cm.
Ex. Private collection, aquired before 1980.