Aweidah Gallery - Ancient Art
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1352686 (stock #1427)
BURNISHED POTTERY SPOUTED VESSEL
"Canaanite" Early Bronze Age, 3100 - 2000 BC

Red slip, globular body with a two loop handles, rim folded outward and a flat base

Dimensions:
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 15 cm
Height on stand: 17 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found in Jericho "Jordan valley", Holy Land

Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical lands during the...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Byzantine : Pre AD 1000 item #1201805
Ancient Byzantine highly decorated incense burner

Dated from, 5th - 6th Century AD

Measurements: Height: 13 cm - Diameter: 15 cm

Condition: Base with a hole from antiquity, minor upper side section has been professionally repaired hard to see otherwise intact!

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1375582 (stock #2730)
BRONZE FIGURE OF SLEEPING EROS "CUPID"
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...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1213806
From Jerusalem, a very attractive Talmudic period pottery torch, dating to the 6th Century AD

The torch is nicely and richly decorated with incised decoration of large palm branches all around and burning marks from the inside

Measurements: Height: 17.5 cm - Diameter: 15 cm - Height on stand: 23 cm

Condition: Excellent archaeological condition

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1201780 (stock #172)
POTTERY WINE PITCHER
Greek - Hellenistic, 300 - 100 BC
Time of Alexander the Great

Beautifully made with a shaped neck, rim folded outwards and a ring base

Dimensions:
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 17 cm
Height on stand: 24 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical lands ...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1355661 (stock #853)
DECORATED POTTERY PAN WITH TWO HANDLES
HOLY LAND – ROMAN “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great

From Jerusalem, decorated pottery pan with two handle

Measurements:
Height: 11 cm
Width: 32.5 cm

Condition: Expected minor chips at the rim as shown otherwise intacts

Found near Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1352593 (stock #1215)
POTTERY WINE PITCHER
Holy Land - "CANAANITE" Late Bronze Age;1550 - 1200 BC
Time of Moses

Long cylindrical neck with a rim folded outwards and a ring base!

Dimensions:
Height: 17 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Height on stand: 19 cm

Condition: Good condition

Found Jericho "Jordan Valley" Holy Land

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1376479 (stock #1193)
BYZANTINE - EARLY ISLAMIC DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
7th Cent. AD

Circular body with fine ribbing, body tapering towards the top, wider at the lower part and narrower at the upper with a loop handle higher than the rim and a well-formed nozzle.

Dimensions:
Length: 9 cm
Width: 6.5 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Jerusalem, Israel

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1375496 (stock #328)
BURNISHED POTTERY WINE AMPHORISKOS
HOLY LAND, IRON AGE II, 800 – 700 BC
Time of the Kings of ancient Israel

Conical body tapers to bottom base, two loop handles on the side and a long funnel-shaped neck.

Dimensions:
Height: 25 cm
Width: 19 cm
Height on stand: 28 cm

Condition: Minor hairline crack hard to see otherwise intact

Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #540989 (stock #1125)
POTTERY OIL LAMP
ISLAMIC PERIOD, 8TH CENT. AD

Highly decorated with clusters of grapes, vine leaves and floral designs all around the shoulders

Measurements:
Length: 9.5 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

Condition: Good condition as shown

Found in Jerusalem, Holy Land

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1355655 (stock #1740)
BIBLICAL POTTERY VASE
CANAANITE, MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, 1850 - 1550 BC
Time of Abraham
This type known by the chocolate on white ware with remains of brown paint pigments...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Glass : Pre AD 1000 item #706813
This is an extremely rare Roman dark blue heavy rough glass block with superb silver "Rainbow" iridescence patina, said to have been found in a Roman glass work place northern Israel! The pictures tells 101 tales

Glass is formed when sand (silica), soda (alkali), and lime are fused at high temperatures...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1375519 (stock #395)
RED SLIP POTTERY WINE PITCHER
CANAANITE, Early Bronze Age, 3100 – 2700 BC

Beautiful Abydos ware burnished wine jug with a long neck, large handle and funnel-shaped mouth and a flat base.

Dimensions:
Height: 21 cm
Width: 12 cm

Found in Jericho, Israel

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Abydos ware (a-BY-dos ware)
Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the First and Sec...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #611984 (stock #2943)
POTTERY OIL LAMP HOLY LAND – ROMAN “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great

Measurements:
Length: 8.5 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Intact with nice earthy patina

Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land

A lamp such as this might have lit homes during the time of Jesus...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1363326 (stock #3846)
BRONZE SPIKE-BUTTED AXE-HEAD
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...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1352679 (stock #1621)
POTTERY JAR
HOLY LAND, Roman "Herodian" 37 BC - 100 AD
Second temple period
Time of Christ

Globular ribbed body with a shaped neck and rim...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1037222 (stock #1595)
BURNISHED POTTERY JAR
Holy Land, "Canaanite" Early Bronze Age, 3000 - 2000 BC

Globular body with a rim folded outwards

Dimensions:
Height: 14 cm
Diameter: 13 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm

Condition: Minor restoration at the rim as shown otherwise intact

Found in Jericho "Jordan valley", Holy Land

Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical lands during the b...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1160212
Aweidah Gallery is pleased to offer this extremely rare Roman painted pottery wine amphora known by the Jerusalem pottery (PSEUDO -NABATAEAN) dating to the first Century AD.

They became known as Pseudo-Nabataean Ware because of their resemblance to the fine Nabataean painted wares which are characteristic to the Nabataeans...