FINE ANCIENT ART & ANTIQUITIES

Ca. 5th century BC.A pair of bronze bowls, including a bowl of a rounded body with a flaring profile, adorned with a pair of double bands on the b...

Ca. AD 500.A deep bronze goblet with slightly corseted walls, and a conical-shape base supported by a small, concave foot. The cup of the goblet c...

Ca. 5th century BC.A biconical-shaped banded agate bead with each end with a gold cap embellished with granulation, suspension loops surmounting t...

Ca.1000 BC.A delicately modelled Western Asiatic solid gold coil with flat endings, featuring a tubular body shaped in a tight spiral. Gold rings ...

Ca. 800 BC.A hollow hoop pennanular in form, formed from a solid wire, circular in section, expanding to the flat terminals. Size: D:18.75mm / US:...

Ca. 800 BC.A hollow hoop pennanular in form, formed from a solid wire, circular in section, expanding to the flat terminals with are decorated wit...

Ca. 400 BC - 100 BC.An exquisite Western Asiatic gold earring featuring a penannular shape enriched by clusters of gold granules. This form of ear...

Ca.1000 BC.A delicately modelled Western Asiatic solid gold hair ring with twin hinges. Gold hair rings of this type would have probably been used...

Ca.1000 BC.A beautifully modelled Western Asiatic solid gold hair ring with twin hinges. Gold hair rings of this type would have probably been use...

Ca. 800 BC.A hollow hoop pennanular in form, formed from a solid wire, circular in section, expanding to the flat terminals decorated with twenty-...

1st millenium BC.A matched pair of gold earrings formed by a round hoop, each adorned with spherical gold beads arranged around the the outer circ...

Ca. 600-400 BC.A gold pendant of a loop design, decorated with fine gold wire coils and a granule; holding a rock crystal scaraboid intaglio depic...

Ca. 5th century BC.A silver bracelet of penannular design, featuring a round-section shank. The shank on both ends culminates in a calf head, with...

Ca. 1200-1000 BC.A bronze vessel with a flat circular base, from which the body gently flares, progressing through a rounded shoulder and tapering...

Ca. 1200-1000 BC.A bulbous bronze vessel, characterised by a slightly concave base and a raised rim. It also features an applied long channelled s...

Ca. 5th century BC.A pair of bronze bowls comprising one with a deep, hemispherical body adorned with rosette decoration on the base and incised c...

Ca. AD 224-651.A bronze vessel, characterised by its large and deep form with a truncated cone shape and a rounded flange adorning the rim, featur...

Ca. AD 224-651.A bronze vessel, characterised by a flat and circular bottom. It ascends through a tubular lower body to a generously flaring mouth...

Ca. 8000-6000 BC.A pair of biconical stone axe heads, each with a central shaft hole designed for attachment to a pole. These implements, typical ...

Ca. 1200-700 BC.A pair of cast bronze mace heads, each with a hollow cylindrical body to be placed around a wooden staff. The upper halves are equ...

Western Asia, Ca. 2nd millennium BC.A group of five cast bronze axe heads, each with a tubular shaft, a round socket and a compact blade with a fl...

Western Asia, Ca. 2nd millennium BC.A group of four bronze axe heads with an adze blade. Each tool features a central, collared socket, which woul...

Western Asia, Ca. 1200-700 BC.A cast bronze mace head with a tubular shaft and a knobbed head. Its upper portion is equipped with raised and verti...

Ca. 2nd millennium BC.A beautifully patinated axe head with ribbed decoration around an elliptical shaft-hole beside a cylindrical socket and cres...

Ca. 2nd millennium BC.A bronze axe head with a flaring blade, slightly tapering cheek and a circular socket with ribbed features resembling a coil...

Ca. 9th century BC.A bronze battle axe head with a curved blade extended downwards, a deep cheek, a tubular socket and a four-spiked butt. For a s...

Ca. 2nd millennium BC.A bronze single-edged sickle blade with a rounded tip and a short handle to the end. Sickle blades were used for utilitarian...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200-700 BC.A bronze sword with a triangular-shaped blade that tapers to a sharp point and features a prominent mid-rib...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200-700 BC.A bronze sword featuring a leaf-shaped blade that gracefully tapers to a sharp point. The blade exhibits a ...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200-700 BC.A double-edged bronze sword with a sharp blade that tapers to a pointed end, complemented by a thick midrib...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200-700 BC.A bronze dagger with a slender double-edged blade tapering to a sharp point. The hilt curved inward from a ...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A bronze spearhead featuring a leaf-shaped blade with rounded shoulders and a prominent midrib that runs the length of the b...

Ca. 1900 BC.A beautiful example of a clay barrel cylinder of biconical form, with hollow interior. Cuneiform barrel cylinders were typically creat...

Ca. 1900 BC.A rectangular-shaped clay tablet with rounded edges and corners, bearing cuneiform on both faces. This is one of the oldest types of w...

Ca. 1900 BC.A rectangular-shaped clay tablet with sharp edges and corners, bearing cuneiform on both faces. Tablets such as these were small enoug...

Ca. 1900 BC.A rectangular-shaped clay tablet, bearing cuneiform on both faces and the sides. Tablets like this were used for administration. This ...

Ca. 2000 BC .An Old Babylonian foundation cone ‘clay nail’ with cuneiform round roughly two-thirds of the body. The body tapers to a point and has...

Ca. 2000 BC .An Old Babylonian foundation cone ‘clay nail’ with cuneiform roughly two-thirds around the body. The Sumerian determinative DINGIR is...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A bronze sceptre of a janiform design with a highly stylised anthropomorphic figure grasping the long necks of flanking doub...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A cast bronze hollow standard, featuring a janiform design, portraying a highly stylised anthropomorphic figure grasping the...

Ca. 3rd-2nd Millennium BC.A group of three marble mace heads, each featuring a piriform body and a lengthwise perforation. A subtle collar surroun...

Ca. 3rd-2nd Millennium BC.A group of three dark stone mace heads, two with spherical bodies and one distinguished by a bulbous top and tubular low...

Ca. 3rd-2nd millennium BC.A group of three stone vessels comprising a jar with a flat base, tubular body, sloped shoulder, flat rim, and an exteri...

Ca. 3rd-2nd millennium BC.A group of three stone vessels comprising of a bulbous bowl adorned with a decorative register of diagonal lines positio...

Ca. 3rd-2nd millennium BC.A group of three stone vessels including a vessel with a truncated conical-shaped body with a flaring profile and flatte...

Ca. 2000 BC.A finely crafted silver beaker featuring an hourglass-shaped body with a rounded base and an everted rim. Its decoration is comprised ...

Ca. 1000 BC.A reduction-fired blackware pottery vessel presenting a tapered bulbous body and an incised pattern of short diagonal lines around the...

Ca. 3rd-2nd millennium BC.A stone vessel characterised by its cylindrical shape, featuring slightly corsetted walls that rise vertically from a ro...

Ca. 3rd-2nd millennium BC.A group of four stone vessels, comprising three with hemispherical shapes and pronounced rims; one with a cylindrical sh...

Possibly Sassanian Ca. AD 600 or later.A discoid silver mount featuring a central repoussé lion head depicted en face. The animal's head is modell...

Ca. 2100 BC. A stone cylinder seal depicting an enthroned lunar diety, accompanied by a divine and human attendant and flanked by Neo-Sumerian ins...

Ca.1800-1600 BC. A black stone cylinder seal depicting a giant figure in a horizontal stance. A wavy border flanks the figure. Studied by PD Dr. h...

Ca. 2700-2300 BC. A buff stone cylinder seal depicting a hero, who holds two ibexes climbing a hill that is surmounted by a tree. Studied by PD Dr...

Ca. 2100 BC. A buff stone cylinder seal depicting an enthroned lunar deity accompanied by divine and human attendants. A lunar crescent is shown a...

Ca. 2100 BC. A brown stone cylinder seal depicting an enthroned lunar deity, accompanied by attendants. A lunar crescent and four dots are shown o...

Ca. 2100 BC. A brownish stone cylinder seal depicting a seated solar deity and a bald-headed attendant. Accompanied by a Neo-Sumerian inscription....

Ca. 2700-2300 BC. A black stone cylinder seal depicting a naked hero fighting gazelles and lions. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Vee...

Ca. 1900-1600 BC. A dappled black and white stone cylinder seal depicting a bearded deity (seen from the front) with a horned cap and a divine kin...

Ca. 2700-2300 BC. A black stone cylinder seal depicting a banquet scene with seated male and female figures drinking from a large vessel through a...

Ca. 2nd Millenium BC. An alabaster cylinder seal depicting a seated deity with attendants. A stand with a lunar crescent and an Elamite inscriptio...