TimeLine Auctions 6 Day Antiquities and Coin Sale

Early 2nd century AD. A carved marble bust of a notable general or patricius, possibly the portrait of Lucius Licinius Sura, an influential senato...

Augustan Period, 20 BC-4 AD. A carved marble bust of Gaius Iulius Caesar Vipsanius, probably at the age of fifteen, with characteristic Julian hai...

3rd century AD. A carved marble bust of a wealthy man with powerful expression, possibly a portrait of the Emperor Carus, close-cropped receding h...

2nd-4th century AD. A carved marble female head with elongated features, hair drawn back from the face in a braided band, narrow facial features a...

2nd century AD. A carved marble figurine of Aphrodite and Eros (Roman Venus and Cupid) standing on a tiered dais; Aphrodite standing with right le...

2nd-4th century AD. A carved marble right hand of a child(?) with thumb and fingers bent to hold a poculum with recessed rim. 596 grams, 10.5cm (4...

1st-2nd century AD. A pair of marble feet with amphora, finely carved from a Greek original, the graceful lower legs and feet alongside the tall r...

1st-2nd century AD. A carved marble left foot wearing a sandal (caliga) with straps to the foot and ankle. 220 grams, 79mm (3"). Property of a Lo...

2nd-3rd century AD. A life-sized bronze hand with open palm, the fingers raised as a stop sign with well-marked detailing, socketted at wrist to a...

1st-2nd century AD. A beautifully modelled left hand from a statue of a hero, athlete, god or an emperor; formed as a clenched fist with fine anat...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A hollow-formed bronze left foot and lower leg from a bronze statue; the leg shown angled forward, foot pivoted at ...

2nd-1st century BC. A bronze element from a seat frame comprising a rectangular openwork panel with two lateral legs and square tiered bases, tran...

Dated 26th October 153 AD. A bronze rectangular diploma tablet with dense text in two paragraphs of capitals to one face and to the other a single...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze rectangular plaque with stepped herringbone border, facing bust of Cybele with segmented headdress, symbols in the fi...

1st-2nd century AD. A patinated bronze jug with bulbous piriform body, narrow neck with rolled rim and open spout; handle with figure of Juno stan...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A sceptre comprising a slender round-section iron rod and bronze handle with bulb to each end, the finial a janifor...

1st-2nd century AD. A substantial bronze figure of Juno (Greek Hera) standing with right hand in gripping pose, left hand extended palm-upwards, e...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze statuette of a Roman warrior god in a striding stance, wearing a muscled armour (statos), over a thoracomacus with pe...

1st-2nd century AD. A hollow-formed bronze figure of the goddess Cybele seated on a low throne with a pomegranate in her right hand, left hand res...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze bust of Silenus with bare chest and open tunic, head turned to his left, thick beard, wreath of vine leaves to the br...

1st-2nd century AD. A hollow-formed bronze mount comprising a female head with flange rim, elaborately dressed hanks of hair and stub wings to the...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze oil lamp formed as a bull's head with ovoid base, hinge-lugs to the brow with draped chains to each side, filling hol...

1st-3rd century AD. A bronze chariot pole terminal, a tapering socket with domed end and central knop, two lateral attachment holes, hook formed a...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze hollow-formed statuette of a lion resting on the ground, forepaws stretched in front of his body, back legs tucked be...

2nd century AD. A bronze plate brooch in the form of a facing owl, the wings and eyes forming cells for enamel infill, feather detailing to the ta...

2nd-4th century AD. A substantial key with bronze handle formed as a crouching lion devouring a calf, emerging from a square-section calyx; iron s...

1st-3rd century AD. A plaited bronze chain necklace with a central lovers knot, two ribbed collars to each end of the double chain. 13 grams, 56c...

Late 3rd-early 4th century AD. An unusual gold ring with the lower part of the hoop formed as a wreath, angled shoulders extending to a high openw...

2nd century AD. A hollow-formed gold ring with D-section hoop and expanding shoulders, with a carved carnelian bust of Minerva (Greek Athena) wear...

3rd century AD. A gold ring with grooved hoop, angled and scooped shoulders; discoid bezel inset with carnelian cameo of a tall wine amphora, appl...

2nd-3rd century AD. A gold ring with expanding D-section hoop and angled shoulders, pelta-shaped openwork plaque to each shoulder, large raised be...

1st century AD. A gold finger ring with carnelian gemstone, intaglio profile female bust. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Colle...

3rd century AD. A red jasper gemstone, intaglio dolphin and anchor motif, set into a later gold ring with facetted hoop, heart-shaped shoulders, o...

2nd-3rd century AD. A green jasper intaglio with two canines engaged in coitus, set into a later gold ring with D-section hoop, heart-shaped plaqu...

2nd-3rd century AD. An agate cloison, intaglio dolphin, prawn and fish, set into a later gold finger ring with trumpet-shaped shoulder and ribbed ...

2nd century AD. A gold finger ring with inset cabochon garnet to the bezel, intaglio ram and starburst motif. 5.48 grams, 18.60mm overall, 13.46m...

1st-2nd century AD. A gold ring with D-section expanding hoop, triple bezel with an applied granule between each bezel set with red jasper intagli...

3rd century AD. A gold finger ring with snake-head shoulders and hatched outer face to the hoop, disc bezel with beaded wire rim, central facing b...

4th-5th century AD. A gold finger ring with discoid bezel, inscribed text 'PO?+? / +N7+ / ANH?'. 4.08 grams, 19.21mm overall, 17.68mm internal di...

2nd century AD. A bronze finger ring with gilt surface, inset nicolo with intaglio harpy motif. 8.18 grams, 25.34mm overall, 14.80x17.67mm intern...

2nd-4th century AD. A matching pair of gold hollow-form crescentic earrings with a garnet in a cell to the forward face, a loop below for a drop w...

2nd-3rd century AD. A matched pair of gold earrings, each a hook and openwork rosette with cabochon sapphire to the centre, transverse scroll bene...

2nd century AD. A matching pair of gold earrings, each an openwork disc with a central spherical garnet bead and hook to the rear, a stepped bar b...

5th century BC or later. A miniature hollow gold spouted jug with looped handle, encrusted with granular decoration. 14.74 grams, 40mm (1 1/2"). ...

1st-2nd century AD. A gold hollow-form pendant depicting male genitals and part of the lower abdomen with curly pubic hairs; later loop. 1.18 gra...

2nd-3rd century AD. A gold hollow-formed lunate pendant with ribbed loop and granules, reef knot in beaded wire to the void with granule detailing...

1st-2nd century AD. A choker-length necklace of gold openwork links and interstitial glass drawn and constricted, oblate and other beads. 7.95 gr...

1st-3rd century AD. A beautiful restrung V-shaped necklace composed of graduated tabular carnelian beads interspersed with translucent seed beads,...

4th-5th century AD. A gold spoon with shallow piriform bowl, scrolled neck with lobes, hollow square-section handle with baluster below and shorte...

4th century AD. A fabricated crossbow brooch with square-section transverse arm, three onion-shaped knops with beaded wire collars, scrolled loops...

1st-2nd century AD. An elaborate gold stylus or pin with Serapis, the god of fertility; the upper end of the tapering pin twisted and the groove i...

1st-2nd century AD. A dress pin comprising sheet gold top with sleeve and amphora-shaped finial, iridescent glass bead between the arms, attached ...

2nd-3rd century AD. A silver finger ring with ellipsoid plaque, intaglio running boar motif. Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991...

3rd century AD. A silver ring with facetted hoop and shoulders, octagonal bezel with inset carnelian(?) gemstone, intaglio advancing lion. Cf. Rus...

2nd-3rd century AD. A silver ring with fluted shoulders, inset carnelian cloison with intaglio profile bust of Mars (Greek Ares) with pteruges and...

2nd-3rd century AD. A flat-section silver ring with fluted shoulders, large raised bezel with carnelian intaglio with an engraved scene of a roden...

2nd century AD. A silver bust mount of youthful Bacchus (Greek Dionysus), the god of wine and sensual pleasures, depicted nude with serene express...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze furniture fitting with lion's claw and lower leg developing to a lily with putto emerging above, clutching two bunche...

1st-2nd century AD. A perfume container formed as a miniature amphora with rock crystal body held by silver wires to a flared base; domed shoulder...

2nd century AD. A silver plate brooch formed as a fortified gate with crenellation to the upper edge, loopholes, arched doorway and rampart below;...