Sassanian Stone Stamp Seal Bead w/ Pinecone

**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

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian/Sasanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A deep brown hematite stone stamp with an intriguing scene on the seal face an

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

**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, The Levant, Proto-Literate Period, ca. 3500 to 3000 BCE. A seal made from a semi-opaque stone that has been shaped into a cachet with an engraved insect motif. The stone is a creamy

Ancient Near East, Middle East, Syria to Northern Iraq, Proto-Literate Period, ca. 3500 to 2500 BCE. A hand-carved stone bead seal of a rectangular form with a perforation drilled lengthwise for suspe

Ancient Near East, Middle East, Syria to Northern Iraq, Proto-Literate Period, ca. 3500 to 3000 BCE. A fine carved stone stamp of half-spherical form with a vertical drill hole for suspension. The cir

**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,

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Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Persia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 200 to 700 CE. A pair of seal beads carved from chalcedony and agate, the larger is strung on a modern silver wire

Ancient Near East, Persia, Sassanian (also Sasanian, Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A fabulous ensemble of 4 Sassanian stone stamp seal beads, each of hemispherical form with varying col

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Sassanian (also Sasanian, Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 5th century CE. A fine gathering of 5 hand-carved stone stamp seals from the ancient Sassanian E

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Persia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 200 to 700 CE. A pair of seal beads carved from chalcedony and agate, the larger is

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic Sumer (Syria), Provincial type, Archaic Period, ca. 2800 to 2500 BCE. A lovely bifacial carved-stone stamp seal bead of rectang

Near East, Sasanian Empire (also Sassanian, Sassanid), ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A fabulous agate stamp seal bead featuring the incised image of a standing griffin facing right. The level of detail o

Ancient Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian, Iraq, ca. 700 BCE. Finely carved black stone stamp seal in rectangular form. Each side with similar depiction of standing quadruped - horse or zebra possibly. On o

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 224 to 651 CE. A fine carved hematite stamp seal of a deep grey hue in the form of a half-sp

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-carved, beige-hued stone stamp seal with a conical handle, a perforated suspension hole, and a broad stamp face incised with a highly styliz

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th to 7th century BCE; Parthian to Sassanian Empire, ca. 200 BCE to 600 CE. A pair of stone stamp seal beads each wit

**Originally Listed At $450** Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian/Sassanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A deep green, glossy stone stamp seal bead with a flat, ovoid face and a

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

Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian / Sassanid) Empire, ca. 224 to 651 CE. A carved jasper O-type stamp seal bead of half-spherical form with a vertical drill hole for suspension, th

4th-5th century AD. A carved brown stone stamp seal depicting a standing Gayomard, accompanied by a museum quality impression and a copy of a typed and signed scholarly note by the late W.G. Lambert,

**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