SUMERIAN ROLLER SEAL

Carved Carnelian Roller Bead featuring Ishtar and King under the Sun, an irregular cylinder with off-center hole, 850-800 BC, 1 1/4" long. Good condition. Displayed on a small wooden stand.

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

Circa 3rd millennium B.C. White glazed composition seal with integral loop to the domed reverse, cruciform design of concentric lotus petals. 3.2 grams, 30 mm (1 1/8 in.). From the private collection

A Pre-Incan Jama Coaque (Ecuador) pottery figural roller seal cylinder stamp circa 500 BC- 500 AD. Provenance: Purchased from NY dealer—The Lands Beyond, 1218 Lexington Ave, NY, NY from the col

A large Aztec roller seal. Ca. 1400 - 1500 A.D. A rare sello from Mexico, solid seal with abstract design, suspension holes on ends. Dimensions: 3-1/4" H; Weight: 7.4 oz. Ex. Private collection, Newar

A rare LaTolita sello (roller seal) from Ecuador, c. 300 BC - AD 400. This choice example is 1 7/8 in long, 3/4 in in diameter and creates a repeated step pyramid pattern. The designs of this rare typ

A fine sello (roller seal) from Ecuador, c. 300 BC - AD 400, an excellent solid Jamacoaque or LaTolita example is 2 7/8 in long, 1 1/4 in in diameter and creates a deeply grooved chevron pattern, whic

Ancient Pottery Roller Seal for Body Adornment or Textile Ecuador. Ca. 500-1000 A.D. Size 2 5/8 x 1 7/8 inches. Provenance: Ex. Collection of Judy and Harmer Johnson, acquired 1970s-1980s.

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 1150 to 550 BCE. A pair of cylindrical ceramic rollers, each one hollow in the center, with its exterior d

Ecuador, Ca. 800 to 500 BCE. cylindrical rollers with impressed designs to cut a repetitive pattern when rolled. Along with stamps; each with a flat head and knob handle behind. The faces are carved w

Pre-Columbian Olmec Peoples Terracotta Roller Seal, Las Bocas, Valley of Puebla, Mexico, l. 2 1/8 in., dia. 1 7/8 in. Provenance: Robert Huber, Dixon, IL, 1983; Estate of Curator and Scholar and Advoc

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

A Carved Glass Intaglio Medallion, 20th Century, Together with a white metal, bright cut intaglio medallion depicting a Roman soldier and an Assyrian style carved black stone roller seal.

A pair of Jamacoaque stamps from Ecuador, ca. 300 BC – 400 AD. The sello (roller seal) is 2-1/4 in long and is perforated; the stamp is 2 in wide and has a broad handle. Ex Leazer collection.

A rare Chorrera sello from Ecuador, c. 1200 - 200 BC, a solid roller seal whose impression creates two panels of elaborate stylized floral motifs. 2 1/2 x 1 1/8 in (6.3 x 2.8 cm). Ex Kowinski estate.

Comprising a clear quartz hardstone carved with human and animal figures (7/8"L); a red hard stone cylinder seal carved with human and animal forms (3/4"L); and a small black hard stone cylinder with

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

Comprising two hard stone cylinder seals, each pierced throught the center and carved in the round, one carved in lapis or sodalite, the other brown agate, each with figural carving. Blue seal 1"L. Br

Carved from black hardstone with lions, gazelles, birds and other zoomorphic figures, the center drilled through. 2"L. Condition: small flake on rim of one end, light scracthes and light wear, no visi

An unusually large steatite cylinder seal, white with brown inclusions, depicting stylised palm tree and two walking horned animals. Drilled for suspension.

Ca. 2700-2500 BC.Cylinder seal of white marble. Contest scene: Walking lion behind lioness between two rearing domestic quadrupeds; scorpion above lion's back. Condition very good. Accompanied by a si

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

Early Sumerian Cylinder Seal, Uruk/Jemdet Nasr Period, c. 3300-2900 B.C.Carved in a pink fine grained hard limestone in a schematic fashion, typical of such cylinder seals of this period, depicting tw

Two Sumerian cylinder seals made of dark stone, 3rd millennium B.C.1) Scroll seal made of almost black stone, 2.7 cm long and 1.1 cm wide. The impression shows two persons approaching a seated deity,