TimeLine Auctions 5 Day Antiquities and Coin Sale

3rd millennium BC. A limestone vessel with piriform body, broad shoulder, triple collared neck, rolled lip and shallow rolled foot. 265 grams, 76...

2nd millennium BC. A large carved alabaster platter with flat centre and flange rim. 1.9 kg total including stand, 37cm width (14 1/2"). Property...

1st millennium BC. A pyramidal black limestone stamp seal with incised bands to each face, rectangular frame to the underside enclosing three line...

5th-4th century BC. A translucent yellow agate cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a ...

10th-5th century BC. A faience cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signed...

24th-22nd century BC. A jasper cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signed...

2nd millennium BC. A slender haematite cylinder seal with intaglio frieze of a figure in flounced robe facing a group of bull-headed men and a fac...

15th-11th century BC. A brown limestone cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed a...

11th-9th century BC. A bronze dress pin with the top of the shank hammered out to form a flat disc decorated in low repoussé with a stylised flora...

6th-4th century BC. A brown limestone cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and...

Middle Syrian, late 2nd-early 1st millennium BC. A spool-shaped green chalcedony cylinder seal with five registers, motifs to both ends for stampi...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A trapezoidal serpentine pendant with low-relief standing figure to the obverse, symbols to the reverse. 3.91 grams, 18mm ...

Ur III-Period, 2112-2002 BC. A red jasper cylinder seal with presentation scene, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a scholarly note, ...

1st millennium BC. A composition cylinder seal with spiralling band of (Phoenician?) text; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 40 grams, ...

9th-6th century BC. A round-section, open hoop bracelet with stylised dragon-head terminals. 75 grams, 84mm (3 1/4"). From a very important Londo...

16th-12th century BC. A black limestone cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed a...

1st millennium BC. A group of six fusiform limestone tubular beads. 385 grams total, 10.5-13.5cm (4 - 5 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; ac...

Early-mid 20th century AD. A large Idar Oberstein tapering oval-shaped polished agate bead with white banding and two pierced flat ends to take a ...

10th-7th century BC. A brown rhyolite cylinder seal; drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and...

3rd-1st millennium BC. A carved jasper figure formed as a recumbent bull with short, tightly curled horns, hindlegs and forelegs folded beneath bo...

15th-11th century BC. A faience cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signe...

2nd millennium BC. A group of two cylinder seals comprising: one black limestone with frieze of standing robed figures; one mottled limestone with...

8th-7th century BC. A silver votive plaque representing a human face, with stylised eyes, nose and mouth embossed in repoussé, decorated with dots...

2nd millennium BC. A slender nude male bronze standing idol with free-running ring at the waist and free-running ring at the neck, right hand rais...

1st millennium BC. An iridescent glass stamp seal with opposed man and beast motif; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 11.6 grams, 33.5m...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A carved agate pendant incised with a winged insect design; pierced longitudinally for suspension. 5.6 grams, 28mm (1"). F...

10th-5th century BC. A faience cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signed...

538-530 BC. A clay pillow-shaped tablet with Akkadian cuneiform text concerning a loan of silver; accompanied by a scholarly note, which states: '...

26th-7th century BC. A mixed group of cylinder seals, jasper (1), faience (1), bone, terracotta (1), drilled vertically for suspension; each is ac...

20th-19th century BC. A black jasper cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and an old schol...

2nd-1st millennium BC. A black jasper figure of a bird in flight; spread stub wings, broad tail, small rounded head with hooked beak and round eye...

Mid 2nd millennium BC. A bronze figurine of a stylised male, large head with pinched nose and large protruding ears,a conical cap on his head, sty...

2800-2500 BC. A slightly curved clay panel with impressions from one or more cylinder seals; accompanied by an old scholarly note, signed by W.G. ...

6th-4th century BC. A matched pair of gold earrings, each a penannular hoop with tapering profile, hollow bulb finial. 9.80 grams total, 22-24mm ...

Circa 2040 BC. A pillow-shaped clay tablet with cuneiform text to both sides giving rations of food for messengers, accompanied by a typed and sig...

5th-3rd century BC. A yellow limestone cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and an old sch...

2nd millennium BC. A plano-convex black limestone bead with roundel and radiating leaves to the upper face, recumbent stag to the underside with f...

31st-30th century BC. An onyx cylinder seal with white vein, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a t...

13th-12th century BC. A ceramic pouring vessel with piriform body, integral cylindrical handle and long, tapering U-section spout. 680 grams, 23....

11th-9th century BC. A bronze figure in the form of a standing ram with curled horns and short tail, wearing a collar with a lug for suspension at...

1st millennium BC. A rock crystal conical stamp seal with intaglio winged gryphon; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 4.47 grams, 15mm (...

3rd millennium BC. A carved jasper piece formed as a vulture, standing pecking; integral pierced loop for suspension. 4.3 grams, 24mm (1"). From ...

17th-19th century AD or earlier. A bronze hammer-head with central slot, flanking spurs to the upper and lower edges, low-relief foliage ornament ...

2nd millennium BC. A shell cylinder seal with two bands of serpent ornament; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 10.3 grams, 28mm (1"). F...

Circa 3rd millennium BC. A carved limestone headless figure of a standing male worshipper with hands clasped across chest and wearing a long robe ...

30th-28th century BC. A facetted brown jasper cylinder seal, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and an old scholarly note, typed and signe...

31st-16th century BC. A mixed group of cylinder seals, haematite (2), limestone (2), drilled vertically for suspension, each accompanied by a muse...

6th-4th century BC. A bronze bowl with hemispherical body and basal ring; circumferential bands of decoration to the outer face comprising plain b...

1st millennium BC and later. A restrung necklace of facetted tubular rock crystal beads, biconvex carnelian beads and later hollow-formed gold ovo...

2000-1600 BC. A brown jasper cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signed s...

11th-9th century BC. A bronze figure formed as a standing horse with erect ears, full mane and tail held outstretched from body; bridle details on...

18th-19th century AD. A gold necklace with hook-and-eye fastener, four spherical garnet beads with gold filigree caps, three ellipsoid plaques wit...

16th-5th century BC. A jasper cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and signed ...

5th-6th century AD. A group of two ceramic bulla, each featuring a personal seal impression with Spahbed Official horseman dressed in armour holdi...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with conical body, stepped rim and ogival foot. 3 kg, 31.5cm (12 1/2"). From an important collection of T...

6th-4th century BC. A restrung necklace of graduated glazed composition and glass ovoid, tubular and other beads. 13.9 grams, 40cm (15 3/4"). Pro...

10th-8th century BC. A brown jasper cylinder seal, drilled vertically for suspension; accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a typed and s...

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic pouring vessel formed with a biconvex body, shallow ribs around the shoulder, circular-section spout, handle with cen...

26th century BC. A substantial agate cylinder seal with frieze of stylised fish between raised borders; accompanied by a museum-quality impression...

4th-1st millennium BC. A group of ten amulets including one accompanied by a typed and signed note by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriol...