Assyrian Pottery Upper Body Goddess Astarte - TL Tested

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh period, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A fabulous, hand-built pottery figure, likely a fertility goddess, depicted standing with a voluptuous, hourglass-shaped body

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Assyrian Empire, ca. 2025 to 1378 BCE. An impressive, mold-made pottery relief of a standing male genius or apkallu - an ancient sage of Mesopotamian mythology - st

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. late 4th to 2nd century BCE. A beautiful votive statue of a sphinx with a Classically-styled woman's face and upper body. She sits upright on her back haunches, with he

An Exceptionally Large Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar with Oxford TL test. Made from a reddish pottery, the upper body elaborately painted in various geometric patterns. It has a wide flared mouth and

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A wonderful pottery kero presenting a corseted body and tall, flared neck that leads to a broad rim, all sitting u

Southeast Asia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), ca. 15th century CE. A massive and marvelous pottery jar presenting a voluminous body, a rounded shoulder, a corseted neck, and a flared rim, all sitting upo

Originally listed at $800... Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. A splendid pottery jar presenting a globular body with a rounded shoulder, a corseted neck, and an impre

Native American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 200 BCE to 800 CE. A wonderful pottery pitcher displaying a bulbous body, a sloped shoulder, a conical neck, and a flared rim, all sitting upo

**First Time At Auction** Egypt, Coptic culture, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A fine mold-made pottery vessel displaying a circular body with convex walls, a narrow neck, and a flared rim, all sitting u

Late Helladic IIIB, Late 14th-13th century BC A large decorated tan color pottery vessel having a round tapered body, twin opposing strap type handles connected to a central column support having a la

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A remarkable, hand-built pottery figure known as a mother goddess shown in a seated position with

Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 25th to 26th Dynasty, ca. 746 to 525 BCE. A beautiful, mold-formed pottery funerary cone with a tapered body and a flat stamp face. The face bears a

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. An intriguing, hand-built pottery figure known as a mother goddess shown in a seated position with thick legs stretched out

Ancient Greece, early Archaic period, ca. 8th century BCE. A stunning pottery alabastron presenting a slender, elongated body of drop form that gently tapers to a brief slanted shoulder, a narrow neck

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

Greece, Late Mycenaean to Archaic, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A beautiful, wheel-made, polychrome amphora in the Mycenaean pictorial style with an elegant body and equidistantly placed twin handles bridging

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a tall, sizable form with a flat base, a cylindrical body, and a flared shoulder. The body is adorned

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head with prominent face tattoos embellishing the chin, upper l

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery pitcher of sizable form with an apple-shaped body, a loop handle, a sq

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2100 BCE. A lovely example of a hand-built pottery vessel of a flat-bottomed form with a slender body, gradually widening shoulders, and a thick rim su

Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2300 to 1900 BCE. An exquisite, hand-built pottery jar of a massive size with a planar base, a spherical body with

Ancient Near East, Northern Syria, Syro-Hittite, ca. 2750 to 1900 BCE. A finely preserved pottery idol figure of an intriguing form depicting the mother goddess Astarte. She stands with slender legs a

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo

Near East, Syro-Hittite, ca. 2800 to 1500 BCE. A pottery figure of the goddess Astarte, with a simple physical form on the lower body and a more complex, abstract on at the arms, shoulders, and face.