Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Stone (479)

A very interesting large stamp seal with a knob handle, Western Mesopotamian, 1st. mill. BC.

Finely worked and polished seal in a glossy dark stone. The base in engraved with a detailed depiction of a horned animal, crescent above.

Size: 27 mm. tall and 24 mm...

Attractive thick cylinder seal in brownish black stone, Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.

Finely carved with raised details with a cruciform / millsail pattern within a dotted border.

Size: 18 mm. wide and 20 mm.

Condition: Nice VF, some even wear.

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

A large and unusual bifacial stamp seal, Ubaid-Uruk period, Late 5th.-4th. mill. BC.

The seal is round and relatively flat with central piercing and engraved with a symethrical Cruciform pattern on one side and a horned animal on the other side.

Size: c.30 mm...

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...

A scarce Sumerian stamp seal in greenish black stone, Mesopotamia, ca. 4th. millenium BC.

The seal predynastic and very interesting in that it has a double image of animals and a labyrint.

Size: 28 mm. long and 19 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice, fine patina and wear but intact.

Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards.

Comes with collectors own notes and photos mounted on filt with a hard wax impression.

A very attractive Sassanian stamp seal carved with an animal with it's turned back, a trident symbol and a fine long line of Pahlevi script above.

Finely inscribed seal in a mottled hard stone.

Size: c. 15 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Ex. German private collection, Ex. Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.

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 lot of 5 stone stamp seals of the hemispheric or button-shape in different kind of stones incl. serpentine and chlorite, North/west Mespotamian 5th.-4th. millenium BC.

The seal bases mainly engraved with different cruci- forms, but there's also a much earlier Halaf period seal in this lot.

Size: Up to c. 16-17 mm...

An impressive large cone-shaped stamp seal with typical drill carvings, incl. what looks like the male phallos (?), Mesopotamia, c. 3300-2900 BC.

Very unusual Cone shape for the period.

Size: 32 mm. in diameter and c. 20 mm. tall...

A very nice early cylinder seal in white marple, carved with a characterestic and significant geomethric design for the Period.

A nice thick cylinder in a high quality white marple stone!

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...

A very large and superb carving in an rectangular gable form, Anatolia, later style of the 3rd.- millenium BC.

The seal carved in a light brown stone with mirrored horned animals with a star between their legs.

Size: 39 mm. x 35 mm.

Condition: Good Very Fine, some wear to the drilled hole at the back, othervise superb with a lovely orange brown patina!

Comes with the original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (192...

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 scarce scarce Mesopotamian Bifacial tablet seal in greenish black stone, Mesopotamia, ca. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

The seal predynastic and very interesting in that it has a double image of stylized scorpions and a labyrint.

Size: 28 mm. long and 19 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice, fine patina and wear but intact.

Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards.

Comes with collectors own notes and photos mounted on filt wi...

A very early stone cylinder of the group of massive Uruk seals, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, probably late 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia.

A very thick seal engraved in a fine black stone with symethric eye symbols in the drill style.

Size: 22 mm. thick and 27 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, with even Wear and fine patina with deposits.

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

Attractive and impressive large stamp seal, engraved with an intriquing geomethric design, Anatolia or Mesopotamian, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting design of the seal, floral or perhaps female fertility forms, deeply engraved in the black serpentine stone. Looks a bit like some of the designs during Jemdet Nasr, which could date this seal to around 3300-2900 BC

Size: c. 30 x 27 mm.

Condition: Choice VF, light wear to the edge but basically intact and attr...

A large and very nicely carved stamp seal in black stone, Anatolia/Levante, 2nd. millenium BC.

Lovely engravings of a horned bull attacked by a Lion on one side and on the other side, an impressive winged Goat, with small bearded human head above.

Interesting and very rare!

Size: 3,4 cm. in diameter and ca. 1 cm. thick.

Condition: Very fine and basically intact with central piercing at a later time and some flaking.

Ex German Collection...

An exceptional and rare collection of Carnelian beads, stringed as a Necklace, Asia Near East, ca. 2nd. mill. BC BC.

The necklace strung with a large number of beautiful flat and some fewer hemispheric beads, each very precious and with a larger central hanger. Very colourful and wearable.

Length: ca. 46 cm. in a single row, 23 cm. in a double row.

Condition: Choice, a perfect selection. Note that nearly all beads have ancient glossy patinas of white calcifica...

A lovely rectangular stamp seal with a stylized bird handle, North-West Mesopotamia, 2nd. mill. BC.

The base particularly well-engraved for the stone type and period, with two animals in flight.

Size: 22 mm. long and 16 mm. wide and 17 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, nice patina.

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

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

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.

A very large black stone stamp seal with high relief engraving, Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC. According to notes from the collection, this seal was found in Tell Halaf!

High relief carving of cruciform pattern.

Size: 32 mm. in diameter and 19 mm. tall, so a high domed seal, really large in hand.

Condition: Extremely fine, uncleaned deposits, very attractive.

This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard imp...

A fine style amuletic seal, probably 3rd. millenium BC or even older Ubaid, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal is depicting a humanoid figure with his arms stretched out and an animal / Geomethric sun pattern. Top-drilled.

Size: 32 mm. tall and 23 mm. wide.

Condition: Good VF, intact with even light wear and overall nicely preserved.

Comes with hard impression and original ID-card from the collection. It was aquired in 2005.

Provenance: Gustav Oberl...

Interesting and massive stamp seal in fossilized shell or the like, and carved with a large capride with long horns on the base. Hemispheric shape and drill-carving of the later Uruk period, c. 3300-2800 BC.

Very attractive and impressive in the rough shell material, quite dense and heavy.

Size: 40 mm. in diameter and 17 mm. tall.

Condition: Near Very Fine, nice and intact for the material with typical corrosion and deposits.

Comes with imprint and o...

Attractive trapezoid style seal in fine transperant stone. Finely carved with Sin or worshipper of Sin/Nabo at the alter

Size: 22 mm. tall and 15-16 mm wide.

Condition: Good very fine, completely intact, nice patina.

This seal comes with a hard impression and COA.

Provenance: Ernst Grumach (1902 - 1967), Berlin.

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

Nice low relief depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.

Size: c. 28-29 mm. tall.

Condition: Near VF, intact with some dirt deposits

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

A fine large black serpentine stamp seal of scarce round form, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal is carved with a fine angled cross motif with triangular forms (arrow-points or wedges) in each field, all a high relief. It has a low pierced handle on the back.

Diameter: 31 mm. and 10 mm. tall - large and impressive seal for it's type

Condition:
This seal was aquir...

Interesting cylinder seal in black stone with a warrior holding a spear in a running stance inside two rows of running animals, Old Assyrian, Early 2nd mill. BC.

Size: c. 17 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with fine wear and deposits.

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

A choice stamp seal carved in harder black stone, probably serpentine, West Mesopotamian, 4th.-3th. mill. BC.

An early prototype of the square stamp seal with a handle, later so popular. This seal is engraved with stylized animals in it's base.

Size: 25 mm. wide, 24 mm. tall.

Condition: Near Extremely fine, attractive.

This seal was aquired 2003 and comes with original hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: G...

Interesting and impressive large stamp seal of the hemispheric form so popular in the late Ubaid/Uruk period in Mesopotamia.

The seal is carved with the image of a bird or animal headed demon walking. Really high relief and artfully done. Also interesting, the surface of the seal is drilled with small holes (not deep) as a sort of decoration.

Size: 31 mm. max. in diameter, rather massive in hand. This seal comes with hard impression and COA, from below collection...

A very rare western Mesopotamian scaraboid seal with an engraving of a seated king on Throne holding his sceptre as a sign of his status, Western Mesopotamia, 2nd. mill. BC.

Attractive translucent stone, rarely seen as a material for early period scaraboids. Finely polished with curving sides in a peculiar squarish shape. Quite nicely engraved motif, better than the imprint indicates. On the back faint enhgraving of cross.

Condition: Nice VF or better, intact with fine pati...

Very attractive large stamp seal in finely polished black stone, Uruk period of East Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Round seal with elaborately evolving handle from the back and carved with lovely symethric depiction of loops. Quite unique! Described by the collector as Hittite, but the seal is clearly provincial Uruk style.

Size: 29 mm x 23 mm and 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Comes with imprint and original Id card.

Provenan...

A nice lot of 6 stamp seals in various stones, mainly scaraboid seals from the Middle-Assyrian period, c. 1500-1100 BC.

Lot also includes a nice larger Sasanian stamp seal, but with repaired crack.

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

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 specialize...

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...

Interesting late neolithic - early bronzeage stamp seal in attractive dark green stone, finely engraved, East Anatolia/West Mesopotamia, c. 3rd. millenium bC.

The seal finely made with a handle and sort of 'Hat-shaped' like these pre-Hittite seals often are. The engraving shows a pair of horned animals with very long curved horns and with the small triangular spearpoint-forms in the fields, typical for Anatolian seals.

Size: 24 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Good ...

An accomplished and very interesting larger stone cylinder seal, from the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, c. 3500-3000 BC.

The fine drill-style carved shows thick vertical bars, and some strange creatures behind and around these bars. Attractive high relief seal carved in a black stone, with loop at the top instead of the usual vertical drilling.

Size: c. 27 mm. tall, and 13 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine, finely preserved with nice patina and deposits.

Interesting and rare massive cylinder seal and stamp in one, Eastern Anatolia / West-mesopotmian pre-dynastic, c. 4th. mill. BC.

The seal finely engraved with a bulls-eye pattern and a deep relief star in the base. Topdrilled with loss to the small loop.

Size: 22 mm. thick and 30 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine or about so, loss to loop and some wear, with much cleanable earthern deposits.

Comes with imprint and COA.

Provenance: Gustav Ober...

A thick early Mesopotamian cylinder seal in white-grey marple, carved with a characteristic and significant design for the Period of Jemdet Nasr, 3200-2900 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 suc...