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Ancient art and antiquities in the Alte Roemer online shop
Welcome to the Alte Roemer shop, where you will find authentic artefacts covering the time span from Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Refine your search to ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian or other antiquities using the navigation menu on the left, or just browse our full selection. An own section of our shop is dedicated to ancient numismatics with focus on Roman and Greek coins. Please do not hesitate to contact us any time via email or using our contact form. Correspondence is welcome in English, German, Italian, French, Russian or Japanese.
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Near Eastern cylinder seal with fish
The beige seal shows three groups of stylized fish. Am artefact from Bronze Age Mesopotamia or south-west Iran.
€520Akkadian cylinder seal with animal contestThe cylindrical seal from Mesopotamia shows domesticated animals fighting with lions and a bull-man. An impressively large piece for a cylinder seal. Old Akkadian, around 2300 BC.
€1,600Large Near Eastern lance headDouble-edged blade of a lance from Bronze Age. With a nice green patina.
€460Near Eastern lance headDouble-edged blade of a lance from Bronze Age. With a nice green patina.
€395Pair of ancient gold earringsInteresting specimen with coil-like biconical cylinder and blue beads. From the first centuries AD, made in the eastern Mediterranean.
€800Mesopotamian libation bowlAlabaster vessel with ram's head as a spout for the offering. A perfectly preserved piece from the 3rd Millennium BC.
€2,900Core-formed polychrome glass alabastronNice and small vessel with a strong patina. It is not a classical type of alabastron and retains a few mysteries.
€755Old Babylonian cylinder seal with godsSeal of reddish brown stone from the Middle Bronze Age of Mesopotamia. It shows three standing deities, one with the shepherd's staff of Amurru.
€1,200Stamp seal with handleInteresting Iron Age II seal with schematically engraved animals and humans. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria.
€280Horse bit from LuristanDelightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Figural decorations form the cheek pieces.
€1,800Sumerian votive headRare fragment of a small Sumerian votive figurine dating to the 3rd Millenium BC. From the Erlenmeyer collection.
€2,610Western Asiatic maceheadHeavy head of a mace with a globular shape. Nicely polished stone. From the Early Bronze Age of Western Asia.
€670Western Asiatic maceheadHeavy head of a mace with an ovoid shape. Wonderful veined rock. From Early Bronze Age of the Near East.
€830Fragment of a disc-headed pin variantInteresting pin head from Iron Age Luristan. Unusual variant.
€120Cypriot bowlThe bowl or dish is decorated with painted circles and a spiral. Cypro-Archaic period.
€285Horse bit from LuristanDelightful artefact attesting the dawn of horse breeding in Western Iran during the 8th century BC. Highly stylized horses form the cheek pieces.
€2,840Old Babylonian cuneiform tabletClay tablet with cuneiform administrative or legal text. Dating to the reign of Ammi-Ditana, a king of the first dynasty of Babylon.
€2,430Old Babylonian cuneiform tabletInteresting small clay tablet with cuneiform legal text from Old Babylonian times.
€1,890Old Babylonian cuneiform tabletVery nicely preserved clay tablet with cuneiform administrative text from Old Babylonian times.
€2,380Big Kusura type idolUnusually big shield idol of the Kusura type dating to the Anatolian Bronze Age, 3rd millenium BC. Made of beautiful white marble.
€2,300Pin from Luristan with ibex headThe simple pin boosts a highly stylized ibex head. It is a nice example of this popular decoration for Luristan pins.
€148Disc-headed pin from LuristanImportant and unique pin type of Luristan. This specimen is decorated by bumps forming a seven-pointed star.
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