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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486646
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
Interesting and very large 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 rectangular seal carved with a grit-pattern and with medium tall ridged and pierced handle on the back.

Size: 38 mm. long andd 24 mm. wide, 18 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486645
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486632
Senatus Consulto
$125.00
Interesting and scarce bronze dagger from Greater Persia, c. 3rd. millenium BC.

Among the earliest types of bronze daggers, probably dating deep in the 3rd. millenium BC. No hole for the rivet and with a slightly raised midsection. The upper part of both sides of the blade finely engraved with a heering pattern!

Size: c. 21 cm.

Condition: Very fine, intact with rough uncleaned patina.

Ex...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486631
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
A tanged 'Luristan' bronze dagger or short sword from Ancient Near East, Caspian Sea Area, Bronze age, dating Early-mid 2nd mill BC.

The dagger very heavy fabric sharp shoulders and slight raised midsection tappering to the sharp edges.

Length: c. 32,3 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine nice patina asnd fine metal, uncleaned with deposits.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1990's.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486630
Senatus Consulto
$115.00
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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486629
Senatus Consulto
$95.00
Extremely fine specimen of the earliest metal daggers known, BMAC / Indus, Chalcolithic period, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting and collectable daggers. Flat, leafshaped blade and very long, straight tang.

Size: 20,8 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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486628
Senatus Consulto
$175.00
A very nice and fine condition larger bronze dagger, dating to the 2nd. millenium BC.

Attractive greater Mesopotamian type of dagger with a short tang and two rivets in each top side of the triangular blade with a diamond shaped crossection.

Size: 28,6 cm. long.

Condition: Near Extremely fine for type excellent light green patina and fine metal.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, bought in the Copenhagen antique market in the early 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486532
Senatus Consulto
$295.00
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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486531
Senatus Consulto
$325.00
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...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486528
Senatus Consulto
$95.00
Interesting seal that needs more research. Carved with a nice framed carving depicting a capride, horned animal eating a plant! Syro-Anatolian area of Western Mesopotamia. Found place given as Amúg Ebene near Antiocheia.

Size: 19 x 18 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486527
Senatus Consulto
$165.00
A very interesting and rare early amulet seal, carved with archaic patterns and drill tecnique of the 6th.-5th. millenium BC, Mesopotamia.

The amulet in dark green stone is very rare and shaped almost like an insict carved on each broadside with 6 globules within a gritpattern and a typical Halaf gritpattern on the small side...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486488
Senatus Consulto
$175.00
Interesting and rarely seen example of the Quatrefoil stone stamp seal group, Eastern Anatolia, Halaf period, c. 6th.-5th.- mill. BC.

An early but still quite elaborate small stamp seal, carved with a small cross inside the larger.

Size: 13 mm. x 13 mm., 6 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF, intact with patina.

Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and impo...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486487
Senatus Consulto
$195.00
Seal seal carved like a fruit or a flower pot and on the base an engraved cross, loop at the top. carved in brownish stone, finely polished. Western Mesopotamia, probably 4th.-3rd. mill. BC

Size: 25 mm. X 18 mm.

Condition: Near Extremely Fine.

Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486485
Senatus Consulto
$165.00
Very rare smaller stamp seal with the handle carved as a stylized animal head and the seal base into three round compartements, each containing an animal, Western Mesopotamia, c. 2nd. mill. BC.

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

Condition: Nice Very fine.

Comes with imprint and original collection Id card.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable deale...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486481
Senatus Consulto
$150.00
Finely carved stamp seal with elaborate handle, Neo-Hittite states of the Levante, c. 1200-900 BC.

The seal depicts a horse moving right with another animal above. Scarce representation of a horse for Mesopotamia.

Size: 14 x 13 mm. and 11 mm. tall.

Condition: EF. Much redish deposits and will improve when cleaned.

Comes with imprint and ID-cards from below collection, made by the collector. Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aqu...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486480
Senatus Consulto
$185.00
A scarce very early and substantial stamp seal from the Pre-/early Halaf period of Western Mesopotamia c. 6th. mill. BC.

Assymethrical design, finely carved in a black stone with a medium tall handle, and carved with an interesting web-pattern in the base.

Size: 28 mm x 25 mm. and 14 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF, some wear but overall nicely preserved, uncleaned deposits.

Comes with hard impression and original ID-card from the collection. It was aquir...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1486432
Senatus Consulto
$100.00
A lot of 4 lovely points in fine hardstones and silex from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

Two of four points are carved in scarce translucent hardstone, probably agate, and two probably in silex. One is Paleo-Indian from c. 10.000-8000 BC and others can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC. Very hard material and amazing that they could...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1486431
Senatus Consulto
$100.00
A lot of three lovely points in silex and other finer hardstones from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

The three points carved in hardstones and probably silex. They can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC, but 1 could be much earlier. Very hard material and amazing that they could manage to make such refined artifacts of this size. With...