Large container for this type of vessel. A thin-walled and very skilfully crafted specimen. Made between the 12th and 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

Impressive and striking marble mask. It once adorned the upper facade of a villa or a public building during Roman Imperial times.

The insciption VIVAS (live!) in intense white color is perfectly preserved. Found near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.

One half of a stone mould for bronze casting. The equipment is from a workshop of the 2nd Millennium BC, probably from the Carpathian Basin. From the famous Guttmann Collection. This mould was published in a work by Born and Hansen.

Alabaster vessel with ram's head as a spout for the offering. A perfectly preserved piece from the 3rd Millennium BC.

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

Nice group of polychrome inlays and a spindle weight from Roman Egypt. Including one fragment with a wonderful floral decor.

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

Wunderful example of the curious symbiosis of greek art and buddhist tradition in the second century. The relief shows a key moment in Buddhas life, when he abandons his life as prince Siddhartha to seek enlightenment.

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

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.

Seal of reddish brown stone from the Middle Bronze Age of Mesopotamia. It shows three standing deities, one with the shepherd's staff of Amurru.

The elegant vessel is a magnificent example of the mature art of glass making in the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. From the collection of the well-known archaeologist Professor Fritz Fremersdorf.

Bronze fibula from Anatolia around the time of King Midas. The piece is published in two standard works and was on loan to the Ashmolean Museum.

Impressive, very aesthetic figure. Excellently preserved with beautiful patina. Mounted on modern green marble base.

Nice portrait, on reverse Capricorn with cornucopiae and rudder on globe. Colonia Patricia mint, 18 - 16 BC

The small work of art dates to the Late Period of ancient Egypt. It is worthy to be displayed at a major museum. Published in two works on the famous Epstein collection.

Interesting Iron Age II seal with schematically engraved animals and humans. The seal is from southern Anatolia or northern Syria.

The bronze figurine of excellent quality depicts the child god with cornucopia and double crown. From the Ptolemaic Period of ancient Egypt.

Magnificent head-dress in the shape of a pediment from the time of Alexander the Great. Embossed with a floral decoration, supplemented by birds and grasshoppers. This piece has been published in a 1965 standard work on hellenistic gold jewellery.

The only 1535 edition currently available on the market known to us. Very good condition, appropriate for the age of the volume. Especially worth mentioning are the rich illustrations showing Death as Grim Reaper, feasts, a woman giving birth with midwife, and a scholar wearing glasses.

Nice group of polychrome inlays and spindle weights from Roman Egypt. From an old English collection, ex Bonhams London.

Perfectly preserved bronze plate of a Roman mirror. A handle and reflective metal coating were once part of the object. Typical for upper class Roman households during Imperial times.

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

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

Cone-shaped spindle whorl from the time of Roman rule over Egypt. The beautifully made mosaic glass weight is certainly a showpiece of every collection.

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

Expressive life-size clay mask from Hellenistic Greece. It depicts the character of the slave from the New Comedy, i.e. a theatre style that developed with the Hellenistic period.

Italic pottery in the subgeometric style. Made around 500 BC in Apulia. Handled vessels of this type are an guiding form in Apulian archaeology.

The so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.

Bronze worth 40 Drachmai, Alexandria mint, 51 - 30 BC: Great portrait of the famous last Ptolemaic queen. After her death Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire.

Very impressive, excellently preserved massive lamp. Nice patina. Decorated with crosses.

The two sides show a woman with lion's head and a magical text. The piece is from the period of Gnosticism in the 2nd and 3rd century.

A masterpiece of classicist stone cutting. The large intalgio made of white chalcedony shows the 11th labour of Hercules. An early 19th century work, when classicism dominated the arts in Europe.

Athenian or Greek colony in Southern Italy. Almost perfectly preserved, intense patina. Since 1954 in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art, USA.

From the collection of Joan Conway Crancer, Honorary Trustee of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Extraordinary preserved for an ancient bronze figure of this size, incl. the original lid. Acquired 1988 in London for 8,500 US Dollar.