This is a nice, ancient Roman pottery bowl. Found in the holyland, it has excellent evidence of age, and has been repaired.
Measures 10.5 cm tall and 11 cm in diameter at the shoulder.
Very nice red clay fabric thrown into a fine, thin-walled construction with wide shoulder, cinched neck and flaring rim, all in slightly ovoid form with convex b... Click for details
This is a very fine example of Holyland pottery dipper dating to approximately 3000 BC.
Very rare in such good condition. Uniquely, this piece has a vertically incised handle. The piece measures 6.5 cm tall, and has some chipping to the rim, as expected. Overall good condition, and stable.
This is a very fine and large pottery pitcher dating to the time of King Herod at Jerusalem, circa 100 BC - 100 AD. A wonderful, intact example measuring 17 cm tall. Condition: Choice. No chips, cracks, repairs or restorations. A wonderful example with great calcium adhesions attesting to it's age.
This is a fine example of the type of pottery being manufactured in the region of Jerusalem, circa 100 BC - 100 AD. The buff pottery juglet with bulbous body and slender, long spout measures 15 cm tall. Condition: one very small chip to the rim, else choice.
This is a fine example of early, holyland stonework. This jar is carved from alabaster with two vertical, stylized fin-lugs, each pierced twice for suspension.
Measures: 75 mm (3") tall.
Condition: Excellent. Two tiny chips to the rim and good mineral adhesions attesting to the great age of this piece.
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Two Neolithic Stone Ax Heads from the Holy Land, ca. 6000 BCE, found in Jerusalem. The polished Neolithic ax, a heavy implement, was in sharp contrast to the delicate small-rock work of the last stages of the Paleolithic Period and was a reversal of the traditions of products that had yielded ever more lineal feet of cutting edge per pound of stone. The ax and its companion the adz met the need to clear land as agriculture developed as an efficient tree-cutting tool. It may have been used as a w... Click for details
Mameluke Stone / Stucco Fragment Head of a Lion, 13th Century. 2 1/4" high. Some pigment remains around mouth. Ex: Arieh Klein, Jerusalem. The Mameluke Period (1250-1517 CE) In 1260 the Mameluke rulers of Egypt conquered Palestine and became the new masters of Jerusalem. While Mameluke Jerusalem bore prime religious importance, politically it was insignificant. The Mamelukes were soldiers who had been brought to Egypt as property of the ruler from the Central Asian steppes.Since they had been br... Click for details
