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Interesting small clay tablet with cuneiform legal text from Old Babylonian times.

Clay tablet with cuneiform administrative or legal text. Dating to the reign of Ammi-Ditana, a king of the first dynasty of Babylon.

Nice and small vessel with a strong patina. It is not a classical type of alabastron and retains a few mysteries.

Delightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Highly stylized horses form the cheek pieces.

Lamp in the form of a slender glass cylinder. From Egypt or the Eastern Mediterranean. Ex Sotheby's.

Delightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Figural decorations form the cheek pieces.

Axe head originating from the Luristan region during Iron Age. The piece is decorated with eyes to form a stylized bird's head.

Delightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Two joined triangles form the cheek pieces.

Axe head originating from the Luristan region during Early Bronze Age. The piece is decorated with eyes to form a stylized bird's head.

Slender glass flask from the Golden Age of Islam. With a nicely shaped handle and a wonderful, subtle patina. Ex-Sotheby's.

Unusually big shield idol of the Kusura type dating to the Anatolian Bronze Age, 3rd millenium BC. Made of beautiful white marble.

Typical and popular glass vessel type from the Roman Imperial period. From the Heckmann collection.

A product from the Roman province of Palaestina. The high-quality glass was created in the 6th to early 7th centuries, when the Eastern Roman Empire was thriving and the Byzantine Empire took shape.

The perfectly preserved seal is from the Jemdet Nasr period. The stamp shows two goats.

A rare and impressive vessel type from a late Roman glass factory in the Levant. Dating from the 3rd to 4th century.

Extremely skillfully crafted jewellery with wonderful granulation. The design points to Syria during the Late Roman Imperial period.

A product from the province of Palaestina or Syria. The high-quality glass was created in the 4th or early 5th century, a time of upheaval for the Roman Empire.

Nice little bowl with mosaic glass eyes on blue and green background. Exhibited and published in the 1980ies. Made in the early Roman Imperial period in the province of Syria.

Stunning samnite bronze work from South Italy. Made in the 5th or 4th century BC, before Romes expansion into Italy. From the famous Guttmann collection.

Tall and intricately carved bone figurine portraying a stylized woman. From the 2nd century AD.