A mould made ovoid lamp,with wide raised rims by central hole and knobbed handle, with very well defined carinations.
Large Clay Oil Lamp with very nice decorations and patina .
Condition: Excellent Condition, Intact, not repaired and not restored.
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Dionysos (Latin: Bacchus or Liber) was the god of wine. Consequently he was seen as the personification of the life force of the vine and vegetation and the earth's fertiltiy. He was a volatile god whose rites were celebrated in an ecstatic and orgiastic fashion. His female devotees were the Maenads (Bacchantes) and their drunken and lascivious male counterparts were the Satyrs (Fauns). Drunken old Silenos was also a member of his retinue. No where in ancient literature is the passion and fury o... Click for details
Large steatite scarab with blue - greenish glazing
Middle Bronze Age, which dates ca. 1650-1500 BC
18K gold ,modern setting
Dimensions: Height( 1 cm ) Width(1.6 cm) Length(2.3 cm)... Click for details
Ancient Pre-Columbian Mayan Carved Black Cylinder, ca. 400-800 A.D. Deeply-fluted / carved vessel in painted pigment, with a well defined glyph band incised under rim highlighted in reddish pigment; much of the original stucco decoration remains. This type of container was originally used to consume a Mayan concoction made from cacao and chilies. Some of the glyphs depicted - bird, jaguar, owl, and a man. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8"D at rim, intact/in generally excellent condion, save stabilized age cra... Click for details
Ancient Bronze Incantation Bowl from the Indus Valley, Taxila period, ca. 1-199 A.D. A choice example in solid bronze, of a Buddhist incantation vessel, decorated with etched and hammered design patterns inside and out. Stunning example with strong mineral encrustation. 6-1/4"D x 3"H, intact/excellent, with strong mineral encrustation.
Very rare decoration... Ancient Greek South Italic 2-Handled Cup / Skyphos, from Apulia, ca. 350-325 B.C. Redware vessel with wide central horizontal band depicting a standing bird /swan in between two swastikas on one side, and three swastikas on the other; all nicely painted in black on terracotta orange slip. In antiquity, the swastika was used extensively by the Indo-Aryans, Persians, Hittites, Celts and Greeks, among others. In Greek art and architecture, the swastika often represented p... Click for details
Anastasius I, 11 April 491 - 1 July 518 A.D.
Very nice Byzantine - Roman Gold Coin of Emperor ANASTASIUS I. 491-518 AD.
(20mm, 4.50). Constantinople mint. Struck 491-498 AD.
Obverse : <... Click for details
Unique Herodian Clay Oil Lamp with a soot-blackened nozzles, wide
filling hole, a spatulated nozzles and a flat bottom.
Clay Oil Lamp with two nozzles 37 BC-30 A.D.
Early Herodian 37 BC - 30 AD.
Very Good Condition... Click for details
