ANCIENT NEAR EAST MINERAL STONE SEALS AND FIGURES

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Late Uruk Period, ca. 3300 to 3100 BCE. A lovely stamp seal of tubular form that is hand-carved from translucent, yellow-white stone. The cylindrical seal bears

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, Syria, Syrian Provincial, ca. 2500 to 2200 BCE. A cylindrical stamp seal bead carved from dark gray hardstone with an incised program bearing anthropom

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1925 to 1595 BCE. A remarkable stone seal bead featuring a pair of confronting figures, one holding a staff and the other a scorpion

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A carved and inscribed stone cylinder seal with a presentation scene of a supplicant worshipper being presented by a larger figure to a seated dei

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, Middle East, Syria to Northern Iraq, Proto-Literate Period, ca. 3500 to 3000 BCE. A hand-carved greenstone seal with a circular profile and abstract mo

Ancient Near East, Gabel Stone Seal with Winged Griffin, 3500-3000BC, Size 30, Carved stone seal wit Griffin Galel seal with central piercng for suspension. Inventory#A29531 Provenance: Ex The Time Ma

Ancient near east carved stone figure of a pregnant female. measures 4" x 2 1/4" x 2"

A pair of ancient Middle Eastern hand-carved stone seals. Presumably of Syrian origin, Proto-Literate period, ca. 3500 to 2500 BC. A rectangular stamp impressing a deer. A pyramid-shaped seal bead imp

Ancient Near East, modern day Turkey / Syria, Archaic period, ca. 3rd millennium BCE; Iron Age II to III, 10th to 6th century BCE. A fabulous ensemble of five stone seal beads from the Ancient Near Ea

Ancient Near East, Syria, Tell Halaf, ca. 4500 BCE. Two ancient stone seals. The first is a roughly square form, made from a white-beige steatite, depicting a stylized set of lines that appear woven t

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 4th millennium BCE. An intriguing gathering of two hand-carved stone figures. One figure is an "eye idol," so named because of the pair

Ancient Near East, the Levant, Assyria, ca. 1500 BCE. A trio of hand-carved stone seals including 2 stamps and 1 cylindrical roller seal. One stamp seal of orange color features a pair of winged scara

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A dark stone seal with carved twin ibexes, seated on grass in the shade of a leafy fern- or palm-like plant. Seals - both cylinder and

Ancient Near East, Sumeria, ca. early 1st millennium BCE. A large black stone bead, cylindrical in form, and pierced vertically with a wide opening for suspension, featuring a series of auspicious sym

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A large, grey steatite stamp seal depicting a classically Achaemenid scene: a god battles a mythical beast while a goat sits at his fe

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, Anatolia, Early Bronze Age, ca. 3000 to 2500 BCE. An intriguing stone figure of anthropomorphic form presenting the char

Ancient Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. A carved stone figure with flat body surmounted by two well defined incised eyes. Idols like this one were used

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 224 to 651 CE. A fantastical O-type stone seal bead with a central piercing for suspension and a

Ancient Near East, Sumeria or Assyria, ca. 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. A beautiful marbled stone seal, with pale pink, grey, brown, and purple tones, incised to show two identical mythical chimera figu

**Originally Listed At $200** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A beautiful dark green hard stone seal with motifs on both sides - on one, a sunburst, a symbol of a deity, and on

**Originally Listed At $150** Ancient Near East / the Levant, Proto-Assyrian, ca. 4000 BCE. A rectangular black stone seal with an incised motif on its face depicting a Pegasus with a long, raised win

Ancient near east, Sassanian and Persian Empires, ca. 500 to 900 CE. Set of 4 Sassanian stone seals, each of domed form with seal image incised into flat plain. Smallest and perhaps finest is deep ora

From the ancient Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. This is an authentic carved stone figure with flat body surmounted by two well defined incised eyes. T

Ancient Near East, Sumeria, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A black stone seal, carved in the general ovoid form of a scarab without defining details, and pierced laterally. One side has been incised with a s