TimeLine Auctions - 8 Day Antiquities & Coins Sale

2nd-3rd century AD. A red jasper gemstone with intaglio combined triple profile bust of a youthful female dominant, with two bearded profile male ...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A mixed group of glass items including a bangle, dropper jar, jar lid(?), astragalus gaming counters, female head p...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A small table or fruit-knife with two-edged iron blade, ribbed baluster and columnar bronze handle with pierced kno...

3rd-4th century AD. A ceramic oil lamp, discoid in plan with stub nozzle and lug handle, concentric rings to the underside, high-relief bunches of...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze stand, square in plan with tiered base, short column supporting a flared bowl with dentilled rim, knop finial to each...

1st-3rd century AD. A group of six astragalus bones used as gaming counters. 27 grams total, 25-30mm (1"). Property of a Dutch gentleman; formerly...

Early 1st millennium AD. A group of thirty-four strings of small annular lapis lazuli beads. 61 grams total, 40cm (16"). From an important central...

1st-3rd century AD. A restrung necklace of natural emerald crystals drilled longitudinally as beads, with gold spacers. 12.1 grams, 49cm (19 1/4")...

1st-3rd century AD. A set of three bronze hollow-formed table legs, each a tubular socket above a narrow waist and tapering shank with flared end,...

4th-5th century AD. A ceramic coil lamp with piriform body, integral nozzle with reinforcing strips, radiating beaded bands to the shoulder, basal...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze conical jingle with hatched rim. 13 grams, 34mm (1 1/2"). From a private Netherlands collection; previously in an old...

1st-3rd century AD. A silver statuette of Mercury (Greek Hermes) wearing a pilos hat with wings, head turned to the left; naked except for cloak o...

1st-3rd century AD. A lead-alloy face mount with large lentoid eyes, ribbed band of hair, hollow to the reverse. 22 grams, 25mm (1"). Ex an import...

1st-3rd century AD. A bronze cosmetic implement with median bulb, probe to one end and ear-scoop(?) to the other. 9.09 grams, 13.5cm (5 1/4"). Pro...

1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group of four restrung red glass and jasper bead strings comprising: two of graduated oblate and discoid beads with la...

1st-3rd century AD. A bronze pendant formed as a triangular keeled plaque, a youthful head with dressed hair to the upper edge, loop above. 29 gra...

1st-3rd century AD. A carved ellipsoid rock crystal miniature bowl with rounded underside. 20 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). Property of a Bristol collecto...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze figurine of a captive with hands bound at the waist, wearing a belted tunic and pointed cap, with a long beard; small...

1st millennium BC. A bronze bull's head with dished underside and loop to the rear. 5.3 grams, 21mm (3/4"). Ex an important Dutch collection; acqu...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A ceramic redware flask with ribbed shoulder and everted rim. 198 grams, 12.2cm (4 3/4"). From the property of a Lo...

1st-2nd century AD. A matched pair of bone cuboid dice with ring-and-dot markings disposed 1:6, 2:5, 3:4. 8.35 grams total, 12mm (1/2"). Property ...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A fragment of a bronze nude figurine of Orontes the river-god with right arm lowered and left arm raised in a swimm...

1st century AD and later. A mixed group of silver items including two finger rings and a fragment, granule cluster pendant, melon pendant and othe...

3rd-4th century AD. A mixed group of gold seed beads, lapis lazuli fusiform beads and a gold pendant frame with silver coin(?) insert. 6.44 grams ...

Mainly later 1st millennium BC. A mixed group of ceramic tokens with designs including portrait bust, seated figure with dog, Master of Animals an...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze mount formed as a facing female bust with dressed hair and large loop above the brow, ivy-leaf plaque with texture de...

1st-3rd century AD. A pair of bronze plate brooches comprising: one with two leaping fishes, pin-lugs and catchplate to the reverse; one with squa...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze amuletic pendant of a crouching lion on base with herringbone to the underside, serpent-head(?) biting the rump. 15 g...

2nd-4th century AD. A flat-section silver penannular bracelet with punched pellets and herringbone bars, central wreath with rosette. 11.8 grams, ...

1st-2nd century AD. A gold plaque pendant with ribbed loop, ropework border, delicate fill of filigree volute scrolls, cell above with banded agat...

2nd century AD. A bronze plate brooch shaped like a pugio dagger with triangular body, narrow grip and round pommel; cells for blue and red enamel...

1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group of two glass bead necklace strings comprising: one of cream and blue biconical and oblate beads with central fea...

1st-3rd century AD. A restrung necklace of oval, cylindrical, disc, tabular and other turquoise beads with modern clasp. 8.96 grams, 46cm (18"). P...

3rd-4th century AD. A large bronze ring with D-section hoop, expanding shoulders with raised median band, lentoid plaque with raised oval bezel en...

1st-3rd century AD. A moulded terracotta figure of a female with neatly dressed hair, wearing a loose palla, left hand placed below the breasts ho...

1st-3rd century AD or later. A group of twenty restrung necklaces of square-section tubular carnelian beads with modern gold-coloured spacer beads...

3rd-4th century AD. A bronze key with D-shaped loop and ribbed base, folding barrel shank and wards. 15 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). From a private Nethe...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze bowl mount terminal with forked scroll above a helmetted female mask (Minerva?), on a vine-leaf base. 25 grams, 41mm ...

1st-4th century AD. A large group of bronze brooches comprising a trumpet whorl, a swastika, a horse, a cornucopia, a double dolphin and eight-poi...

1st-4th century AD and later. A group of two necklaces of graduated glass beads in various colours. 30 grams, 72cm (28 1/2"). Property of a West L...

1st-2nd century AD. A silver vessel with deep tapering bowl, flat bottom, short flat-section handle with volute scrolls at the rim and incised vin...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze figurine fragment comprising the bent left arm with cloak wrapped around and secured at the shoulder, hand grasping a...

1st-2nd century AD. A silver model of an eagle perched on a rectangular base. 3.52 grams, 16.3mm (1/2"). Property of a Bristol collector; formerly...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze statuette of Diana (Greek Artemis) striding forward, wearing a short chiton, himation tied at the waist and laced cal...

1st-2nd century AD. A glass figure fragment with janiform female masks each with dense band of curly hair. 3 grams, 22.6mm (3/4"). From an importa...

2nd century AD. A silver D-section ring with expanding shoulders, inset round carnelian intaglio engraved with a seated goddess, wearing a chiton,...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze oil lamp with piriform body, the handle a curled swan's head and neck. 222 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a London...

3rd century AD. A silver finger ring with ellipsoid bezel, intaglio figure of a bee with segmented body. Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L. Roman Jewellery, ...

2nd-4th century AD. A bronze mount bust of Jupiter (Greek Zeus) with bare chest, bearded and with vine-leaf wreath to the temples and tying cords ...

2nd-4th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising a bulb pendant with slots and two studs each with concentric rings to the plate. 14 grams tota...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze right hand from a figurine, pierced between thumb and forefinger. 7.81 grams, 25mm (1"). Property of a Dutch gentlema...

1st-3rd century AD. A shallow bronze bowl with carinated shoulder and deep flared rim. 223 grams, 16.5cm (6 1/2"). Property of an Essex collector;...

2nd-3rd century AD. A mixed group of nine bronze toggles, mostly scaphoid in plan with pierced lug beneath. 52 grams total, 20-30mm (3/4 - 1 1/4")...

1st-4th century AD. A group of two gold rings consisting of one with slightly bevelled body; the other with a tapering shank, bezel engraved with ...

2nd century AD. A silver knee brooch with transverse bar, keeled bow and swept body with knop finial, hinged pin and catch to the reverse. Cf. Hat...

3rd-15th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a mount with facing bust; a hollow scallop pendant; a pendant with lion and foliage. 37.9 gr...

2nd-4th century AD. A bronze clamp comprising scissor-action arms with knop finials, ribbed collars, clamp jaws with serrated outer edges pierced ...

1st-3rd century AD. A restrung designer necklace of mixed beads with later spacer beads; modern clasp. 23 grams, 46cm (18"). Property of a West Lo...

2nd-3rd century AD. A silver ring with D-section hoop, flared bezel with inset patinated chalcedony gemstone, intaglio rooster and flower. Cf. Rus...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze handle finial with male bearded bust and curved headdress resembling a Phrygian cap; Mithras(?"). 37.7 grams, 53mm (2...