Achaemenid Stone Seal Bead - God Fighting Anzu

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

Near East, Achaemenid with Greek influence, ca. 550 to 300 BCE. A striking stone stamp seal bead, pierced laterally for suspension and made from beautiful black banded agate with orange and creamy gre

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A hand-carved seal bead made from a smokey chalcedony stone with a white matrix and a zoomorphic motif. The bead has a flat, ovoid fac

Dimension: 28x23mm Additional Info: The lion depicted on the seal adopts the same pose as the Golden Lion, an iconic representation associated with the Achaemenid era. The striking similarity indicate

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. 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, 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

**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

**Originally Listed At $150** Near East, Sassanian Empire, ca. 500 CE. Carved from a dark brown and olive green, semi-translucent, banded stone, the base incised with a lifelike standing ibex design,

Near East, Sassanian Empire, ca. 500 CE. A wonderful collection of eighteen carved stone beads with incised designs, in hues of brown, emerald, citrine, topaz, white, gray, and brown, all perforated f

Near East, Sassanian Empire, ca. 500 CE. A collection of four stone seals, all pierced for suspension. The largest is a near-translucent stone with an incised motif of a crescent moon and crossed swor

Near East, Sassanian Empire, ca. 500 CE. A collection of four deep red carnelian stones, all perforated for suspension. Three have incised motifs and one has a smooth ovoid face that seems ready-made

Near East, Sassanian Empire, ca. 500 CE. Two fine examples of some of the most iconic Sassanian artifacts, stone seal beads, both drilled for suspension. One is a near-translucent, yellow quartz, poli

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 300 to 1000 BCE A stone seal bead incised with Indus / Harappan script - Interestingly the language of the ancient Indus v

**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, 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

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Persia, Parthian to Sassanian Empire, ca. 200 BCE to 600 CE. A collection of stone seal beads formed from carnelian, agate, quartz, and

Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian/Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. An opaque warm brown stone cylinder seal depicting a dramatic scene of a hunter on horseback pursuing a

100% of the Buyer's Premium of all lots sold in this auction will be donated to Community Food Share by Artemis Gallery. $1.00 = 3 meals! **First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, S

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 $800** Ancient Near East, Babylon, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 1925 to 1595 BCE. A central deity stands facing right, hand raised. Before him, a dwarf stands next to a quadruped,

Ca. 8th-5th century BC or later. A beautifully stone-carved cylinder seal engraved with divine hero mastering dragons. A large bird (ibex?) and multiple astral images (6-poined star, lunar crescent, f

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Neo-Babylonian period, ca. early to mid-1st millennium BCE. A petite stamp seal of a cylindrical form that is hand-carved from mottled dark gray stone

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A lovely stamp seal carved from black-hued stone with the bottom bearing two ancient winged sun symbols