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They were often used on the door of the ancient Romans, as figures that served to drive away negative influences and evil spirits
Dimensions:
Length: 9 cm
Width: 6 cm
Height on stand: 11.5 cm
Nicely mounted on a Lucite (Plexi-glass) custom made display stand.
Condition: Not repaired or restored as found!
Pan or Satyre was the god of the wild, a wine addict and a great ...
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Set on sterling silver handmade pendant
Nabatean Kingdom, 9 BC – 40 AD
Lifetime of Christ
Obverse: Busts of King Aretas IV and Shugailat facing right
Reverse: Crossed cornucopiae with Aramaic inscription which was the language of Jesus
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Israel
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CANAANITE, Late Bronze Age, 1550 B.C.
Time of Moses
Found in the Holy Land
Condition: Perfect condition with natural patina.
Measurements:
Length: 15 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm
Nicely mounted on a custom plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand.
Condition: Good condition with natural patina
They will beat their swords into plowshares and their SPEARS into pruning hooks...
BRONZE AGE, PERSIA, 1000 – 800 BC
This fantastic weapon has survived intact and enjoys a gorgeous dark olive green patina
Dimensions:
Length: 50 cm
Width: 4 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored
Nicely mounted on a customs acrylic “Plexi-glass” display stand of high quality
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Byzantine Empire, 5th - 6th Century AD
Cast bronze, the outside rim of the bowl incised with two lines pattern, three loops on the rim joined to suspension chains.
The use of censers in Christian worship became widespread after the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great. The burning of incense had a central place in Christian ritual and was more important in the eastern than the western liturgy. The censers were hung in various places in the church...
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Byzantine Empire, 5th – 6th Century AD
A fascinating ancient Byzantine decorated pottery zoomorphic wine vessel in the form of a cockerel with a loop handle.
The liquids could be poured through the orifice in the animal's head...
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PERSIAN EMPIRE, C. 5th Cent. BC
Moulded pottery plaque showing a hunting scene ( A lion and deer)
Dimensions:
Height: 8 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm
Condition: Good condition as shown, not repaired and not restored
The plaque is nicely mounted on a custom made acrylic" Plexi-glass" display stand
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EGYPT, LATE PERIOD, 664 - 330 BC
A fine pair of ancient Egyptian bronze & alabaster almond-shaped eye inlays and eyebrows, the well-formed lid and cosmetic line crafted of bronze and inlaid with irises of alabaster; the pupils in black pigment...
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ROMAN, 1st - 3rd Century AD
A Sculpture Dreaming About Love
The subject is a young boy, who’s been out shooting arrows all day, and he’s fallen asleep.
The arrows have golden tips … that aren’t deadly as much as powerful. Supposedly they cause victims to suddenly be overcome with feelings of love. Greek bronze figure of sleeping Eros
God of love and son of Aphrodite, was a popular subject for small or silver statuettes...
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PERSIAN PERIOD, 1000 – 650 BC
The Master of (the) Animals or Lord of the Animals is a motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals. It is very widespread in the art of the Ancient Near East and Egypt...
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Roman Imperial, 1st Century AD
A charming hollow terracotta figure of a warrior wearing a helmet.
Measurements:
Height: 20 cm
Width: 8 cm
Condition: Good condition with beautiful natural patina
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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# 6978
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BRONZE AGE, PERSIA, 1200 – 800 BC
Beautifully made with remains of limestone inlay on the handle, untouched as found...
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CYPRIOT, LATE BRONZE AGE, 1550 – 1200 B.C
The vase consists of two identical small juglets (bilbils) joined together at body, excellent workmanship and decoration, dark gray metallic burnish, a fine creation of the master potter in a period when pottery making reached a peak of achievement.
The jar is well proportioned, with a flaring neck, graceful ovoid body and a pointed base...
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PARTHIAN EMPIRE, 1ST CENTURY AD
Dimensions:
Length: 11 cm
Height: 10 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm
Condition: Good condition as found
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Biblical, Iron Age, 1000 – 900 BC
First temple period
“Time of Kings of ancient Israel”
RARE- Ancient pottery wine flask with an attached shallow bowl, two small loop handles extended from neck to shoulders...
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Dated from, 1096 - 747 BC
LARGE Ancient Egyptian elegant cosmetic vessel, in slender form with a collared rim, tapering to a narrow base...
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Canaanite, Late Chalcholithic - Early Bronze Age, 3500 - 2200 B.C.
Found in the Holy Land
Rare- ancient Canaanite copper Flat Axe-head and a Mace-head (Set)
Cast copper alloy flat / proto-palstave axehead from the early Bronze Age with a crescent-shaped blade. The body of the object thickens towards the middle and there are ridges along the sides, running perpendicularly to the blade...
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Dated from, 336 - 323 BC
Obverse:
Alexander in the guise of the demi-god Hercules (wearing a lion scalp)
Reverse:
Figure of the supreme Greek god Zeus seated on his throne holding a scepter and eagle
Dimensions: Length: 3.5 cm
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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IRON AGE II, 1000 – 586 BC
Time of the Kings of ancient Israel”
Concave-sided, hollow body, closed on either side end with convex disc, hole of different size on either end.
Measurements:
Length: 9 cm
Diameter: 6.5 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored.
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel.
Hollow objects containing pebbles or clay pieces are found in Iron Age sites, mainly in tom...
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Greek period, 300 - 100 BC
Measurements:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 13 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite†display stand of high quality.
Condition: Good condition, untouched as found.
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#2746
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Holy Land, Canaanite, Late Bronze Age , CYPRIOT
1550 – 1200 BC
Time of Moses
Alabaster bilbil with a shaped-neck and a flat base. Bilbils of this type are usually made of pottery and it is rare to come in stone “Alabaster”
Dimensions: Height: 12 cm Diameter: 7 cm Height on stand: 16 cm
Condition: Neck/Handle professionally re-attached otherwise intact...
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CANAANITE, Early Bronze Age, 3100 – 2700 BC
Beautiful Abydos ware burnished wine jug with a long neck with a rim folded outwards and a flat base.
Dimensions:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 13 cm
Found in Jericho, Israel
Abydos ware (a-BY-dos ware)
Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the First and Second Dynasties (The Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upp...
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MESOPOTAMIA, OLD BABYLONIAN, 1800 B.C.
Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm
Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare...
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HOLY LAND, BIBLICAL, LATE BRONZE AGE, 1550 -1200 BC
Time of Moses
Painted terracotta wine pitcher, ring base, shaped neck with a tri-foil mouth and typical late bronze age brown paint design all around the shoulders.
Measurements:
Height: 19 cm
Width: 20 cm
Height on stand: 25 cm
Condition: Good condition
Found in Hebron “City of Abraham” south of Jerusalem, Israel
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EGYPT, HYKSOS, Circa, 1550 BC
Impressive necklace beautifully recomposed “Restrung” using authentic ancient Egyptian faience, terminated with clasp so they can be safely worn today.
Dimensions:
Length: 45 cm
Beware of modern fakes!
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Reference:
Egyptian Mummy beads
Egyptian burial sites have enormous quantities of bead...
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PERSIAN, IRON AGE, 1200 – 1000 BC
Dimensions:
Length: 19.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Height on stand: 17 cm
Very good condition with beautiful patina
Nicely set of an acrylic “Plexi-glass” display stand
Complete and intact with earthy encrustations around the shaft, one spike slightly bent.
Cast using the lost wax method; a spike-butted axehead, the short, cylindrical shaft tube with three cords across each side, lead...
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Biblical, Canaanite, Late Bronze Age, 1550 - 1200 BC
Time of Moses
Painted terracotta wine pitcher, flat base, shaped neck with a tri-foil mouth and typical late bronze age brown paint design around the neck and shoulders.
Measurements:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 17 cm
Height on stand: 30 cm
Condition: Minor repair at the rim otherwise intact
Found in Hebron "City of Abraham" south of Jerusalem, I...
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Biblical, Canaanite, Late Bronze Age, 1550 - 1200 BC
Time of Moses
Highly painted terracotta wine pitcher, high base, shaped neck with a tri-foil mouth and typical late bronze age brown paint decoration around the neck, body and handle
Measurements:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 17 cm
Height on stand: 30 cm
Condition: Minor repair at the rim otherwise intact
Found in Hebron "City of Abraham" south...
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ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 3rd Century AD
Measurements:
Height: 12 cm
Width: 11.5 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm
Nicely mounted on an acrylic "Plexi-glass" display stand of high quality.
Condition: Surface chip on top otherwise intact as found.
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# 8578
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HOLY LAND – biblical Roman “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
Second temple period
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great
With a ribbed body, cylindrical neck and a shaped handle
Dimensions:
Height: 18.5 cm
Diameter: 16 cm
Height on stand: 22 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
Antiquities are valuable because ...
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HOLY LAND, Iron Age, Israelite, 1200 – 900 BC
Time of the Kings of ancient Israel
Beautifully made in a globular body with long spout and a strainer
Very little is known about vessels used for drinking beer, those we know of are generally characterised by a spout and a strainer. Since the remains of straw and chaff usually floated along the surface of the beer, it was necessary to strain the liquid before drinking it.
...
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“GOD OF SILENCE”
EGYPT, GRECO-ROMAN 100 BC – 100 AD
This is a wonderful opportunity to own an authentic piece of ancient art that represents a fusion of three of the greatest cultures in history
Hollow terracotta figure of harpocrates with remains of white paint on the surface “God of Secrecy and silence” Harpocrates is shown seated, crossed legs holding a jar with his right forefinger to his lips
This gesture was mis...
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Roman, 1st - 3rd Century AD
Measurements:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 11 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand of high quality.
Condition: Untouched as found.
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# 715598
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SUMERIAN, MESOPOTAMIA, 2000 BC
Length: 45 cm
The necklace is featuring gold and carnelian beads in different shapes.
Carnelian was thought to cause the blood to circulate smoothly throughout the body. It was believed to make the skin healthy and youthful, removing sores and blemishes when worn. Because of its calming effects on the blood, carnelian also makes one feel peaceful and slow to anger. It is theorized that the color orange is t...
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Babylonian period, 1800 BC
Measurements:
Height: 10 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm
Condition: Good condition as found
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand on high quality.
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Biblical, Iron Age, 1200 – 1000 BC
First temple period
“Time of King David”
RARE - A charming wheel-made pottery oil lamp, bowl with thick side, five pinches on sides. It has been suggested that five-spouted lamps were used for ritual purposes.
Measurements:
Diameter: 13 cm
Height: 5 cm
Condition: Good condition with beautiful natural patina
Found in Jerusalem, Holy Land
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