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2nd millennium BC. A banded agate barrel-shaped bead or seal with intaglio scene of combat between a standing human with a dagger and a rearing li...

20th century BC. A carved red jasper Isin-Larsa Period cylinder seal with presentation scene before a seated god; a worshipping woman in an open r...

Late 2nd millennium BC. A carved limestone Cypro-Minoic cylinder seal with an enthroned goddess and a hunting scene, divided horizontally by a lin...

19th-late 16th century BC. A carved red limestone Old Babylonian cylinder seal with worshipping scene; two figures with a high hairstyle or headge...

Early 24th-22nd century BC. A carved agate Old Akkadian cylinder seal with presentation scene, a bearded god wears a flounced robe, has his hair a...

27th century BC. A carved marble Early Dynastic II cylinder seal with an animal fight scene as figure tape; a rampant lion facing right attacks a ...

9th-7th century BC. A large carved mottled green jasper Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal with banquet scene; an attendant, wearing a fringed robe, holdi...

Mid 15th-12th century BC. A carved limestone Middle Assyrian cylinder seal with cattle and Pleiades; looking left two cattle, a bull and a cow, wa...

Mid 19th-late 17th century BC. A carved serpentine Old Syrian cylinder seal with worshipping scene; the worshipper a standing man with a head of h...

28th-27th century BC. A carved limestone Early Dynastic II cylinder seal deeply engraved with ?a? man with broad shoulders?,? and cattle?,? feet i...

7th-mid 6th century BC. A carved carnelian Neo-Babylonian cylinder seal with worshipping scene; a male worshipper in a globular head-dress, wearin...

2nd millennium BC. A carved chalcedony cylinder seal with standing hero between rearing beasts beneath faravahar solar disc, with sphinx and sitti...

27th century BC. A carved marble Early Dynastic II cylinder seal in two registers with banquet scenes; in the upper register appear twice two pers...

19th-16th century BC. A carved lapis lazuli Old Syrian cylinder seal with worshipping and contest scenes; two opposite men, each with a mace behin...

Mid 20th-mid 18th century BC. A carved limestone cylinder seal with five different large quadrupeds next to each other, resting or standing, in th...

3rd millennium BC. A carved fawn limestone cylinder seal depicting a standing god and animal with rosette, accompanied by a museum quality impress...

10th-late 7th century BC. A carved jasper Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal with La?mu before the Marduk-symbol; facing left the god La?mu as a naked mus...

26th century BC. A white agate cylinder seal with contest scene; a naked hero facing left to the right, lifting with his both hands each a capride...

10th-late 7th century BC. A carved red jasper Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal with worshipping scene; a bearded worshipper (the king?) with a round cap...

Mid 3rd millennium BC. A carved white agate cylinder seal depicting a contest scene, accompanied by a museum quality impression and a copy of a ty...

16th-13th century BC. A carved carnelian cylinder seal with stylised tree in the form of a plant stem which is flanked by two sphinxes facing each...

Mid 19th-late 16th century BC. A carved limestone Old Syrian cylinder seal with presentation scene with an enthroned deity wearing a flounced robe...

Late 7th-Late 6th century BC. A carved banded carnelian cylinder seal with a hero between two bisons with human heads; an upright standing bearded...

3rd millennium BC. A carved white jasper Early Syrian Period cylinder seal with the 'Lord of the animals' among his animals; a male figure with a ...

Mid 15th-mid 14th century BC. A carved carnelian Mitannian cylinder seal with winged genius, surrounded by symbols; a winged genius, formed by a v...

1st millennium BC. A pillow-shaped carnelian bead with natural cream-coloured strip with chamfered edges; seven line incised cuneiform text to the...

3rd-7th century AD. A carved rock crystal seal with disc bezel, intaglio of two advancing winged gryphons with a star above, wreath and ties below...

1st millennium BC. A carved garnet pommel or appliqué of a lion's head with notched mane. [A video of this item is available to view on TimeLine A...

1st millennium BC. A carved chalcedony figure of a bull with the legs folded beneath the body, pierced through the shoulders for suspension. 46 g...

1st millennium BC. A carved fine-grained basalt seal formed as a bull resting on a rectangular base, head facing the rear, incuse image of a profi...

Mid 7th-6th century BC. A rectangular sheet bronze plaque, holes close to the rim for attachment of a lining; the surface executed in repoussé tec...

1st millennium BC or later. A bronze plaque depicting erotic scenes on a baseline with stabilising pegs to the reverse. 365 grams, 17.5cm (7"). Fr...

6th-3rd century BC. A bronze standing figure with long flowing hair falling to the shoulders, arms bent and left hand in gripping pose, body cloth...

18th century BC. A bronze figural inlay of a standing king, possibly Hammurabi, facing right, wearing a long robe, his arms pulled up to the waist...

2nd-early 1st millennium BC. A bronze serpent figure with two separate heads, pellet eyes and hooked beaks. 56 grams, 80mm (3"). From the private...

Mid 2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with triangular-section body, flared blade, round socket with D-shaped extension above and below, to the r...

2nd-1st millennium BC. A hollow-formed model zebu with crescent horns and knop finial to the tail, pierced through the flanks. 130 grams, 70mm (2...

13th-6th century BC. A bronze figure of a ram with legs extended, mouth open. See Godard, F.& Y. Bronzes du Luristan, La haye, n.d. 91.76 grams, 8...

1st millennium BC. A bronze figurine or weight in the form of a scorpion modelled in the round, the tail curved on its back, flat to the underside...

1st millennium BC. A large group of mainly complete bronze votive snakes, all with raised lozenge-form head ready to strike, some with their body ...

1st millennium BC. A bronze footed bowl with broad body, hollow-formed foot with lotus detailing, flange rim with ovolo ornament and punched annul...

2nd millennium BC. A matched pair of bronze penannular bracelets, each a D-section shank with ribbed collars, stylised ram's head finials; mounted...

13th-6th century BC. A matched pair of bronze panels, each a square ropework frame enclosing a standing figure grasping two inverted beasts, ribbe...

13th-6th century BC. A group of three dress pins each with tapering shank, radiating lugs below the pomegranate head; mounted on a custom-made sta...

13th-6th century BC. A bronze horse bit comprising a square-section bit with scrolled ends, two lateral cast panels each a facing mythical beast o...

4th-3rd millennium BC. A hollow-formed bronze vessel with bulbous body and trumpet-shaped base, broad scooped lip to the spout with cover and stra...

6th century BC. A large silver bowl with chamfered rim; accompanied by an original old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Prof...

6th-5th century BC. A substantial sheet silver bowl with central discoid omphalos, three tiers of intersecting raised lotus petals, chamfered rim....

Mid 1st century BC. A shallow silver bowl with central raised dome with six further to the sides, a sprig of three lotus flowers in between with c...

1st millennium BC. A hollow-formed silver figure of a standing female worshipper in flounced robe, hands held to the mouth, segmented cap to the h...

1st millennium BC. A silver penannular bracelet with twisted rope detailing, hinged body with filigree collars, opposed ram-head finials. [A video...

1st millennium BC. A substantial silver round-section bangle with hatched panels and biconvex collars. 559 grams, 11.5cm (4 1/2"). Property of a ...

1st millennium BC. A round-section silver penannular bracelet with ram-head finials and hatched panels to the shank. 85 grams, 82mm (3 1/2"). Pro...

3rd-7th century AD. A matched pair of sheet silver pendants, each a dome and trapezoidal tail with parcel-gilt detailing; the dome with concentric...

1st millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with bulbous body and waisted midrim, everted neck to the saddle, the saddle with incised line and pointille d...

1st millennium BC. A terracotta rhyton with tubular body and everted rim, the finial a horse with stub legs, large triangular ears and long split ...

2nd millennium BC. A hollow-formed ceramic vessel of a stylised standing zebu with exaggerated body shape, lateral pierced lugs to the neck, cresc...

12th-10th century BC. An unglazed ceramic vessel formed as a standing stag with spurs to the antlers; filler hole to the neck and spout to the muz...

1st millennium BC. A ceramic rhyton formed as a stylised stag with short neck and handle to the back, incised decorative panel; four short legs un...

1st millennium BC. A ceramic rhyton with bulbous body, short waisted neck with everted rim, painted geometric frieze to the shoulder, the finial f...