Rare cup made of almost colourless, slightly turquoise glass. From the 2nd to 4th century AD.

Beautifully iridescent turquoise-green glass in a cylindrical shape. From the Roman Imperial period.

A tall and slender glass vessel made of almost colourless glass. Similar finds from the 4th century are known from the Balkans and Cyprus.

Square plate made of thin glass, with beautiful iridescence.

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

Beautiful turquoise glass with incised decorative grooves. From the 1st or 2nd century AD.

The pendant with an ibex motif was worn as a lucky charm or protective amulet. Made in the early Byzantine period in a glass workshop in Judaea.

Nice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. Including two fragments with a wonderful floral decor.

Perfume bottle with pattern-blown body. An aperture made it easy to dispense the precious content drop by drop. Made in the Roman province Syria in the 3rd cent. AD.

Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

The glass impresses with its size and elegant shape. Made in one of the Roman glass factories in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Imperial period.

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.

The flat relief made of red glass paste served as an inlay and decorative element in the Ptolemaic period. It was combined with a headgear and body inlay.

Modernly threaded necklace of ancient beads made of beautiful mosaic glass. From a workshop in Roman Egypt. Ex Christie's.

Modernly threaded necklace made of 82 ancients beads from the 1st millennium BC. From the eastern Mediterranean. Ex Christie's.

Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

A beautiful vessel and great example for the high quality glass production during the Early Roman Imperial period. From the 1976 catalogue Muenzen und Medaillen.

Polychrome glass jewellery with a plastically moulded face. A product from the Phoenician culture, created around 400 BC.

Polychrome glass jewellery with a plastically moulded face of a woman. A product from the Phoenician culture, created around 400 BC.

The bowl was made in mosaic glass technique. It is truely a work of art and a showpiece for the glass production in the Roman core region during the Early Imperial period.

Polychrome glass jewellery with a plastically moulded face of a woman. A product from the Phoenician culture, created around 400 BC.

Nice little bowl with an abstract colourful design. Dating to the early Roman Imperial period. With Italian export permit.

Small ancient glass flask, like they are found along the old trade routes of the Islamic world. Such bottles were used around 1000 years ago to transport precious oils and other liquids.

Beautifully patterned old glass beads from Murano and Syria. Ex Christie's.

Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

Polychrome glass bead with stylized elements of a face as protection against the evil eye. Produced in Carthage or the Phoenician homeland, 4th to 3rd century BC.

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.

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.

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

10 magnificent polychrome glass beads with stylized eyes as protection against the evil eye. Made around the mid 1st millennium BC in the eastern Mediterranean. Ex Christie's.

Modernly threaded necklace made of ancient glass beads from around the mid 1st millennium BC in the eastern Mediterranean. Ex Christie's.

Modernly threaded necklace of ancient beads of spherical and cylindrical shape made of beautiful mosaic glass. From a workshop in Roman Egypt. Ex Christie's.

Impressive cosmetic vessel with large handle and nice spiral trailing decoration. A Palestinian type from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period.

A colourful ancient glass from the early 1st century. Made in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Bulbous flask from the Golden Age of Islam. Made of beautiful reddish brown glass. Ex-Sotheby's.