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A Roman green jasper intaglio of an elephant with a bee above. This interesting type suggests that it is a depiction of an Indian war elephant wit...

A Roman short dagger or puglio made of iron with its sheath intact. The puglio was for use as a secondary weapon or for fighting at close quarters...

A semi-spherical helmet of the Spangelhelm type popular with the Byzantines and other armies of western Europe during the later part of the first ...

With a straight neck and a bulbous form neck that rests upon a flaring foot. The neck with a decoration that runs all the way round it. With a bac...

A finely made owl made by the lost wax method of very fine workmanship. The owl is shown standing and is a very fine casting which resembles earli...

A neolithic flint scrapper mounted in a thin gold casing, possibly a little later. Such a high status object could have served a number of ceremon...

An exceptional intaglio in carnelian of Julia Domna, the wife of the Emperor Septimius Severus. She is shown facing left as the sealing would have...

A Roman gold ring with a carnelian intaglio showing and eagle with a wreath in its beak flanked by two legionary standards. Such a ring, with a mi...

Length: 140 cm.

A round silver gilt phalera from the late classical period showing the combat of a cavalryman with a foot soldier. The horseman is attacking the s...

A large iron Byzantine processional cross from the middle Byzantine period. The choice of iron was common for such crosses in particular for the c...

CATALOGUE NOTE The inscriptions are a repetition of 'Malbus Aleafia'. ????? ??????? 138 by 75 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, Maharana Ari Singh aims a long gun. And a princess is also depicted aiming a gun through a window in a...

Four silver inlaid commercial weights of varying sizes. The inlays are in the heads of the figures, various rulers and saints/angels. Bronze ...

A duck weight made of a brownish tinged chalcedony. Neo-Assyrian. Neo-Assyrian. 6th.c.B.C. 20 mm.

A commercial weight in the form of a duck's head. Archaic period. Bronze. Greek. 6/5th.c.B.C. 34 mm.

Two Byzantine bronze commercial weights, possibly from the same set. Probably originally inlaid with copper or silver they represent three and one...

An Ottoman mother-of-pearl inlaid wooden and steel gun sighted barrel retained by four metal embossed barrel-bands, engraved lock, characteristic ...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-orange in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (386-411 AH/996-1...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque brown in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 2.998g, 21.3 mm, coin ...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent dark-violet in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Al-Zahir (412-427 AH/1021-1036...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque white in colour, citing in the centre with the star of Solomon. 1.544g, 14 mm, coin weight: half d...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent greenish-white in colour with blue splash, citing in the centre with " Ali Al-Suwajdi", 3.022g, 2...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque dark-black in colour, citing in the centre with " Ali al-Shaubah", 2.950g, 22 mm, coin weight: dirham....

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque greenish-white in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Al-Fa'iz (549-555 AH/1154–1160 AD...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent light-green in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 5.377g, 27 ...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque brown in colour with white splashes, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 1....

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-green in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Ma'ad (427-487 AH/1036-1094 AD),...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque greenish-white in colour, citing in the centre with 3 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 1.465g, 16.5 ...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-green in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah( 386-411 AH/996-10...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque black in colour, citing in the centre with the star of Solomon, 5.982g, 25 mm, coin weight: double dir...

A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent light-green in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text. 5.665 g., 2...