Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (1673)

A large Zoomorphic style bronze plaque with a loop for attachment on the back, Scythian c. 700-400 BC.

Attractive with a bird-like creature displayed in the advanced steppe style.

Size: 67 mm. tall and 29 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with a green patina.

Ex. Hafnia Coins, ancient coin dealer in Copenhagen, inventory from c. 1990s.

A banded agate stone seal, polished to a perfect oval scaraboid shape with a slightly pointed center, Neo-Babylonian, c. 8th-6th. century BC.

The stone with particularly nice patterns of multi-layered bands. On the base it's carved with a worshipping priest standing before the alter of the principal deity Marduk.

Size: 20 mm. long and 17 mm. wide...

A lovely slender type of Danish Neolthic battle axe, c. 2800-2400 BC.

A cute well-proportioned battle axe with sharp lines and smoothly polished edges!

Size: 11,3 cm.

Ex. Old German Private Collection.

A very attractive stamp seal of the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, carved in a scaraboid / gable form, 3rd. mill. BC.

Substantial seal carved and finely polished in a beautiful diorite hardstone, very popular and scarce in antiquitiy and used extensively by the Egyptians. A black hardstone with white inclusions. The seal in the gable of scaraboid shape and with the preffered carvings of globular patterns of the Uruk period stamp seals of Mesopotamia...

A fine thick and large cylinder seal, Mesopotamia Uruk-Pre-Dynastic, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC

Very vividly engraved in a black stone with what looks like a human holding a bulls eye or sun symbol and perhaps about to climb a latter. Interesting symbols in the fields as well.

Size: 25 mm. tall and 15 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with fine patina and deposits in the details...

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...

Important large stamp seal made in pale green calcite, South Mesopotamia, Late Uruk / Jemdet nasr period, 3300-2900 BC.

Hemispheric seal with a wonderful free carving in a drill style of birds in a highly attractive and rare stone for the period. Pronounced collar round the ends of the perforations. This particular feature is rarely seen on such a large Uruk seal.

Size: 38 x 33 mm. 16-17 mm...

Interesting and unusual small stamp with a beautiful symethric engraving, Post-Hittite states of Western Mesopotamia, c. early 1st. millenium BC.

Size: 11 x 10,5 mm.

Condition: Extremely fine, attractive patinated Hematite.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006...

Interesting stoneage artifact, probably a massive weight of sorts or alternatively, a mace-like weapon.

It's shape is oval, almost like a melon, and it's made in a light grey granite stone. It has 4 symethric ridges for some kind of binding, but we're not certain of it's usage - you're welcome to e-mail if you have seen this artifact before / have got a litterary refference for it...

A nice Urartian bronze with engraved animal, Western Mesopotamia, Kingdom of Urartu, early 1st. mill. BC.

A scarce type in bronze with a tubular boddy and small loop at the top.

Size: 19 mm...

A larger cylinder seal carved in a fine redish-orange stone, Middle Assyrian, provincial, later 2nd. millennium BC.

A sharp seal showing a bowman aiming at a horned animal and another animal behind, perhaps a Lion, in the fields the symbols of the Sun and Moon for the ruling deity, Ashur and his servant on planet earth the Assyrian king.

Height: 29 mm, duameter 9 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine or better, choice and basically intact.

Provenance: The Ka...

Interesting stone stamp seal of pyramidal shape, Western Mesopotamia, probably Late Halaf or early Ubaid period, c. 6th.- 5th. mill. BC.

The shape of the seal has been recorded many times in buriel finds of the 6th. mill. in Western Mesopotamia and the base is carved with a typical halaf grit-pattern. So we will date it a bit earlier than than the collector, Mr. Oberlánder did. Interesting seal.

Size: 17 mm. x 12 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact with fi...

A very rare and interesting stamp seal of the 2nd. mill. BC, carved in dark green stone in Anatolia during the Hittite period of dominance.

As typical for the Anatolian culture and glyphtic art, the seal depicting a hunting scene, but in this case a very unusual one. We see a winged Centaur with horse body and the forepart of a human, attacked by numerous spears and arrows, one is burried in his chest. His horned head with human features is turned upwards, while in flight.

Si...

A scarcer type of Western Mesopotamian seal with animals of a sort of rounded gable form or a semi-circular form of the seal itself, unlike the Anatolian forms. The seal dates to the Ubaid period of the 4th. millenium BC.

Nice engraving in the base.

Size: 17,5 x 14,5 mm.

Condition: Good very fine, finely preserved with nice patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gust...

Interesting early seal of a very rarely encounted shape, worn handle, 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

Size: 26 x 17 mm.

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, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic ...

An impressive seal with a finely carved base in an attractive white stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the slightly oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a horned animal and birds flying.

Size: 22 mm. by 20 mm. and 10 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav ...

Architectorial carving of a temple alter, Northern India / Gandhara, early-mid 1st. millenium AD.

A very artful carving and quite decorative as well, depicting a building housing an alter and flanked by large collumns. The back uncarved and it would have been carved into a rock wall.

Finely mounted, floating on a black metal base.

Size: 35 cm. tall, incl. the mounting, 24 cm. for the temple alone. 16 cm. deep and 20 cm. wide.

Weight: Approx 13-14 kil...

An attractive rectangular stamp seal with elaborate handle, Western Mesopotamia or Anatolia, 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC:

The seal carved with a horned animal in flight. Beautiful seal with sharp edges.

Size: 31 mm wide and 17 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal was aquired 1995 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impo...

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 ...

Interesting stamp seal of a very large size and depicting a horse, found place border area between Mesopotamia and Anatolia, Antiocheia, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

A rare sizeable depiction of a horse from this period.

Size: 35 mm. in diameter and 8 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with some wear from use and some uncleaned deposits.

Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer ...

A very large and lovely round stamp seal with a fine symethric cross or star engraving with confident strokes, c. 4th. millenium BC.

In dark green stone. Halaf style, Mesopotamia, but is likely to be 4th. millenium revival style since it's carved in this low rounded gableform.

Such a large and early seal in good style is rarely seen on the market.

Size: 39-40 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Good Very fine, complete and undamaged, with a nice smooth anc...

A really nice stone seal pendant with a dramatic engraving, Neo-Babylonian-Achaemenid period, c. 8th.-5th. century BC.

Interesting provincial rendering of the famous depictions of the 1st. millenium in the near east, of the great king spearing a Lion. In this case the lion is rather small compared to the king, who is standing in a long dress, trusting the spear with both hands. Probably early Achaemenid, costal Western Mesopotamia.

The seal is highly polished to it's flat t...

Carved and polished square stone seal with winged lion or Griffin, Middle Assyrian, c. 15th.-12th. cent. BC.

The seal nicely detailed and carved in a black stone.

Size: 16 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Very fine, some uncleaned deposits.

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 ...

A wonderful massive seal with fine engravings, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

With the almost square seal plate and the type of handle this seal is the proto-type of the later Neo-Hittite seals, but this one much earlier. The base engraved with a large Deer with large Antler and on top, a smaller stag or horned animal, and a 3rd. animal in the corner, perhaps a hunting dog.

Size: 23 mm. x 22 mm. and 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, light wear to one corner and with ...

An attractive stamp seal with two animals mirrored on the base within a frame, remnants of handle above, West Mesopotamia / Levantine, c. 2nd. mill. BC BC.

The seal carved in fine jet black stone.

Size: 16 mm. long and 15 mm. broad.

Condition: Very fine, nice affordable stamp seal, c. 4000-5000 years old!

This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926...

A large black serpentine cylinder seal, showing a horseman in infight with a rearing Bull and an eight-pointed star in the fields. Middle-assyrian, 14th - 10th century BC.

The scene is quite rare with the detailed horseman!

Height: close to 40 mm and thick with a diameter of 15 mm. – quite impressive in hand.

Condition: Good Very fine for the type. Couple of small dings to the lower edge but outside the motif. Interestingly, the interior is filled with bronze...

A large Zoomorphic style bronze plaque with a loop for attachment on the back, Scythian c. 700-400 BC.

Very attractive the a beast on top of a large spiral; in bronze alloy with some silver content.

Size: 55 mm. tall and 51 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with a black patina.

Ex. Hafnia Coins, ancient coin dealer in Copenhagen, inventory from c. 1990s.

A large and beautiful Scandinavian style bronze shield or tortoise brooch or Fibula decorated with intertwinned dragons, c. 8th.-9th. century AD.

Impressive piece of jevellery that comes out of a very old German collection.

Size: 64 mm. wide and 56 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, with intact needle and sound metal, mottled green and brown patina with some azurite on the back.

Ex. Rudolf Rack, Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt, collection formed from...

Interesting early Gable stamp seal of the Ubaid period and probably made in the later 5th. mill. BC.

The seal depicts an artful motif of two juxtaposed stylized animals with long legs.

Size: 29 mm. long and 22 mm. wide.

Condition: Very fine, some weaer to the edges.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2008. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aq...

A bronze sickle with three raised ribs to the outside of the curve and with the reverse flat, Germany, Early Bronzeage bronze sicle, c. 1800 BC. The interesting type with the large knob at the base.

Size: 136 mm.

Condition: Choice Very fine, intact with a nice glossy dark green patina and uncleaned deposits.

Ex. Jens Knudsen, Hamburg, 1970-1999.

Interesting stamp seal in a greenish black stone, Anatolia, Neo Hittite states of the late 2nd.-early 1st. millenium BC.

The seal with high pierced handle and oval base, engraved with what appears to be scriptsigns, perhaps Luwian, we're not experts in these.

Size: 22 mm tall and quite massive.

Condition: good Very fine, nicely preserved with fine patina and a sharp imprint.

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

A large and heavy carving in emerald of an Eagle Fetish, Native American, probably Zuni, Navaho tribe and 20th. century.

The carving is cut and polished in one emerald stone and depicts the head of a Native tribes leader, carved on both sides of the stone. The stone is transperant light blue-green and very beautiful.

Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these c...

A very interesting and ultra rare depiction of a caesar or emperor on a Seal ring, Late Roman / Darkage, c. late 4th.-6th. cent. AD.

Enigmatic ring that would have belonged to officials with some power. The style of (pseudo) lettering around a central bust and with his raised arm depicted as well, is typical for the Late Roman depictions from the 4th. century and onwards, in this case in the later gothic style known from the coins as well, so a presumable dating would be c. 5th. centu...

Highly interesting scaraboid seal of the earliest style and type we've seen, probably inspired by Egyptian scarab seals, Middle bronze age of the Levant, c. 2200-1600 BC.

The seal is very large and carved in a greenish black stone. Interestingly, there's remnants of the metal mount, probably a chain in iron or bronze (looks like iron!). The seal is carved with Capride with a bird above.

Condition: Nice VF, evidently with some beautiful wear and patina!

Size: 27...

A nice stamp seal, found at the ancient city of Antioch (Amüg-Ebene) on the border between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, probably late Halaf-early Ubaid period, c. 5th. mill. BC.

The triangular seal with a loop at the top and carved with a grit-pattern in the base.

Size: 20 x 20 mm.

Comes with the original collection Id-card and imprint.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 200...

Attractive and substantial cylinder showing horned animals protected by hero against attacking lion. Mesopotamia, Early dynastic, 3rd. millenium BC.

Height: 3 cm, diameter 1,7cm.

Condition: Very fine, intact with typical light wear for material.

Ex. Karl Müller, 1950-1977.

A larger and very refined La Tolita head. He wears a giant nosering and a cap, in hard burnt stoneware.

Size: 5 cm. tall and 5 cm. wide. Unmounted.

Condition: Choice.

Ex Old German Private Collection.

Nice geomethric design stamp seal, carved in black stone, Eastern most Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th.-5th. millenium BC.

The seal carved with a stringent grit-pattern and low pierced handle on the back, almost square.

Size: c. 17-18 mm.

This comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at ...

A collection of 7 ancient beads, incl. massive early trailed beads from late Achaemenid to the Islamic period of the Ancient Near East, c. 4th. cent. BC- 8th cent. AD Three beads are very large, the 4 other beads are medium size to smaller. The largest bead is c. 32 mm. wide and massive. The smallest c. 13 mm. To be researched and should resell individually for more than $100 each!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection...

A lovely tall square stamp seal in a green stone carved with a star-ornamentet handle and a the base engraved with a wonderful scene of a two stags or caprides, one of the them eating a large branch with leaves. Attractive and unusual!

Size: 24 mm. x 23 mm. and 20 mm. tall.

Condition: Good very fine, completely intact a rough patina and deposits.

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

Interesting early stamp seal in serpentine stone, dating to the late neolithic period of Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th. mill. BC.

Finding place: Ebene at the Orontes.

The almost square seal carved with a grit-pattern and with a low worn handle on the back, finely polished.

Size: c. 31-29 mm.

Condition: Very fine, handle worn othervise intact and attractive.

This comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

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A fine hemispheric gable stamp seal with piercing and engraved in the base with a nice image of the Sun, Uruk Period, Mesopotamia, 4th. millenium BC.

Size: c. 20 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Nice very fine, smooth wear and patina.

Comes with imprint.

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

A very nice lot of three stamp seals, two in calchedony and 1 in haematite, all in perfect condition, Neo-Assyrian / Babylonian period of Mesopotamia, 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

Wonderful seals in one lot, all engraved with variations of the star and crescent moon, symbol of Assur and Sin.

The seals comes with original ID-card and hard imprints from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection be...

A very important and lovely larger Thai bronze buddha, 13th.-15th. century AD.

Beautiful archaic features of his crowned head, seated in Dhyana mudra wearing jewellery; On a U-shaped pointy throne.

Just a wonderful archaeological bronze figure of the finest early style, really a gem. It's mounted in a slightly elavated manor on a square plint, professionally made with a metal rod in the center.

Size: ca 22 cm. tall (24 cm. incl. the base) and 15 cm. wide. Heav...

A large terracotta idol figurine of astarte, Syro-Hittite, dating to the mid-later period of the 3rd. millenium BC.

The pillar figure of Astarte with large round eyes and a bird-like presence. Angular shoulders and a monolithic body with her hands and delineated fingers placed over her breasts.

Size: 16 cm.

Condition: Very fine for type, the details still present with no losses, a repaired hairline through the neck, minor chips and losses

Ex. Dutch pri...

Interesting and well-patinated white stone cylinder seal, Greater Babylonia, 2nd. millenium BC.

The seal carved with a symbol of animals with intertwinned necks and lines of pseudo cuneiform script.

Size: c. 24 mm.

Condition: Very fine and intact.

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

Attractive seal in an orange stone, carved with the image of Deities with weapons and a winged 4--legged animal, Greater mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period, c. 900-700 BC. Probably Levantine workmanship.



Size: 18 mm. tall. and 12 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with little wear.

This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlände...

A lovely Pre-Dynastic / late Neolithic gable seal with a an artful engraving, Mesopotamia, 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.

Carved in a beautiful mottled grey stone, gable shape almost scaraboid shape, hence the late dating. The seal carved with an animal fighting a snake - probably a Manguster or a fox, above a Lizzard. Really nice, lively carving!

Size: 26-27 mm. long.

Condition: Good very fine, completely intact with a nice smooth wear and patina.

Comes with...

Interesting stone stamp seal found in Harran, easternmost Turkey, prior to 1991. Harran was founded as a real city at some point between the 25th and 20th centuries BC, possibly as a merchant colony by Sumerian traders from Ur. Over the course of its early history, Harran rapidly grew into a major Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious center.

This seal is engraved with distinctive spoked wheel in the base, so we can date as 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.
The seal finely polis...

A choice condition and lovely terracotta fertility figure of female form, Bajaur (Indus Valley), c. 3000-2500 BC.

A hollow mould-made Indus Valley red terracotta statuette modelled in a stylised manner with applied facial features of birdlike form. Also with applied arms and beasts on the cone-shaped body.

Size: 14,5 cm. tall and 8 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice for type, almost completely intact a few losses usual to applikation in antiquity, no modern repairs...

A fine Mesopotamian stone cylinder seal 4th.-3th. millenium BC.

The seal in hard black stone engraved with nice looking animals with two heads.

Size: 19 mm. tall and 12 mm thick.

Condition: Choice VF!

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 massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputabl...

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.

Comes with the original collection Id-card and imprint.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection b...

A superb and large specimen of an Old Elamite / Mespotamian type of bronze battle axe, c. early 2nd. mill. BC.

The axe well-modelled, the blade flares outward in a spectacular curve, its edge delineated as a thinner border. Thick socket with two spikes on the back and decorated with concenthric rings. The socket looks like the open mouth of a beast when viewed horisontically.

Size: c. 115 mm. wide and c. 88 mm. tall. The blade is c 80 mm. broad!

Condition: Near...

Interesting stamp seal carved in fine serpentine stone almost black, Mesopotamian, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Rectangular seal, carved with an animal in the base and also finely decorated on the other side.

Size: 19 mm. x 14 mm. 8 mm. thick.

Condition: Choice Very fine.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

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

A fine cylinder seal carved in the fine hard Hemaetite stone, Neo-Assyrian, 9th.-7th. cent. BC

The seal is of a fine style, engraved with stylized animals in drill style, incl. a scorpion

Size: 18 mm tall and 8 mm. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely fine, fine miniature carving.

This seal was aquired 1994 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

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

Finely carved stone stamp seal in a dark greenish stone, Western Mesopotamian / Eastern Anatolia border type, Late Ubaid-Uruk period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Typical design of the period wuth a round seal, with the cruciform engraving around a central globe.

Size: 21 mm. x 12 mm.

Condition: Good very fine, finely preserved with nice patina.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provena...

A very attractive stele intact and in high relief, capturing the moment when the Hindu god, Vishnu reveals himself in the guise of his ferocious half-lion, half-man form, known as Narasimha, to vanquish the asura king, Hiranyakashipu. Central India, c. 10th.-12th. century AD.

As Hiranyakashipu moves to kill him (Vishnu), Vishnu, in the form of Narasimha, emerges from a pillar and destroys Hiranyakashipu. The figure on all fours and supporting Narasimha’s foot is likely Hiranyakaship...

A lovely massive relief carved in fine-crystalized white Marble from a grave, Roman Imperial Period, Eastern mediterraean, Late 2nd. / first half 3rd. century A.D.

The relief is showing a frontally standing family with raised right hands in an architectural frame.

Size: 42 cm. wide and 33 cm. tall and 7 cm. thick - a very impressive piece!

Condition: Choice, some overall wear, but fine for the type.

A lovely large amulet carved as a mythical beast in white calcite, drilled for inlay to the eyes and with a drill through the body for mounting it on a string. Mesopotamia, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, 3300-2900 BC.

Finely shaped archaic beast. With old collection mark at the back.

Size: 43 mm. long.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with slightly rough surfaces.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA.

Lovely large figural stele of Pavati, Eastern Java, Early Majapahit, c. 13th.-14th. cent. AD.

The figure is carved in grey-black Vulcanic rock with red iron-oxide patination.

In this sculpture the Hindu goddess Parvati, consort of Siva is represented. It was customary in Javanese sculpture of this period to identify local rulers with cult deities and it is possible that this image of Parvati is intended to represent a deceased east Javanese queen.

She is shown ...