Fine bronze openwork compartement seal, Bactrian, 3rd. mill. BC
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Metalwork: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1467618
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Metalwork: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1467618
$125.00
Reduced, was 165.00
Reduced, was 165.00
A fine and large bronze seal with a loop on the back and a beautiful elaborate cross design, Bactria, c. mid 3rd. millenium BC.
The seal belongs to one of the varied mostly circular metal “stamp seals” relief cast in bronze or copper alloy, but more rarely in silver or gold, which is classified as so-called “compartmented seal” (a term first used in 1943 by the British archaeologist Stuart Pigott – 1943. P. 179–180, fig. 4) fabricated in openwork and with closely related champlevé whereby the design was gouged out. Reff. See Sandro Salvatori Bactria and Margiana Seals: A New Assessment of Their Chronological Position and a Typological Survey, 2000.
Size: c. 3,8 cm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine for type with typical thick green patina.
Comes with the 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 specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.
The seal belongs to one of the varied mostly circular metal “stamp seals” relief cast in bronze or copper alloy, but more rarely in silver or gold, which is classified as so-called “compartmented seal” (a term first used in 1943 by the British archaeologist Stuart Pigott – 1943. P. 179–180, fig. 4) fabricated in openwork and with closely related champlevé whereby the design was gouged out. Reff. See Sandro Salvatori Bactria and Margiana Seals: A New Assessment of Their Chronological Position and a Typological Survey, 2000.
Size: c. 3,8 cm. in diameter.
Condition: Very fine for type with typical thick green patina.
Comes with the 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 specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.
