4V EMPIRES OF ANCIENT NEAR EAST 2003 Folio Societ

EMPIRES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; FOLIO SOCIETY: Four Volume Boxed Set in Original Shrink Wrap, Never Opened. The BABYLONIANS by H.W.F. SAGGS; The Hanging Gardens & Nebuchadnezzar. The HITTITES by O.R

Ancient Near East, Amlash Empire, early 1st Millennium BCE. Standing figure with exaggerated wide hips, thighs, and buttocks - emphasizing her fertility - attenuated arms, relatively long tapering nec

Ancient Near East, Sasanian Empire (Sassanian, Sasanid), ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A stunning, thick-walled, blown glass vessel of rich pale green hues, presenting a cylindrical form with sharply ver

Ancient Near East, Sasanian Empire, ca. 3rd to 6th century CE; Western Europe, Renaissance / Early Modern period, ca. 15th to 17th century CE. A beautiful Sasanian agate intaglio of a gazelle set into

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. Truly exceptional and rare, a handsome pair of leaded bronze hinges, each bearing cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process, and comprised o

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A hand-carved stone stamp seal depicting a horse laying with head down around its forelegs, perhaps deceased. The underside displays a dense s

Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. 6th to 7th century CE. A beautiful ring of minimalist presentation with a cup and wire made from 94.73% gold. Inside the circular bezel is a gorgeous garnet ca

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. 7th to 10th century CE. A beautiful cast silver cross pendant, with its vertical arms slightly longer than its horizontal arms and a

Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. mid-12th century CE. A molded ceramic hand grenade, used for holding the famed "Greek fire." The grenade has a seashell-like shape, with a hole near the top fo

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 559 to 330 BCE. A stunning bowl, carved from inherently beautiful stone of translucent green and matte gray inclusions. The ancient vessel presents an elegant

Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. 6th to 9th century CE. A hand-carved marble prosphora (bread) stamp. The stamp has a discoid press face with an exterior ring bearing a fragmentary inscription

Ancient Near East, Assyrian Empire, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A black stone cylinder seal drilled through for suspension and / or ease of rolling that depicts two animals interacting with two sta

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, Parthian Empire, ca. 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE. A beautiful pottery pilgrim's flask featuring a traditional lentoid form and a flared spout fla

Ancient Near East, Seleucid Empire, Kings of Syria, Seleukis, ca. 105 to 82 BCE. AR tetradrachm (14.9 g). Obverse: Veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche right, bead and reel border. Reverse: Thund

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, Sasanian Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A set of 3 hand-carved stone stamp seals, each with a unique motif incised on the face. The dark hematite s

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, Early Medieval Period, ca. 6th to 9th century CE. A set of copper-plated silver jewelry - including a pair of earrings as well as a r

Ancient Near East, Persian Empire, ca. 10th to 12th century CE. A discoid mirror cast from bronze (decorated side) and leaded bronze (bottom) via the lost wax technique with a raised rim, a protruding

**Originally Listed At $500** Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. 4th to 11th century CE. A fine collection of 14 assorted lead and leaded-bronze weights for scale measurements and merchant use a

**Originally Listed At $250** Ancient Near East, Byzantine Empire, ca. 5th to 7th century CE. A fine bronze weight of square form inscribed with the Greek letters gamma and beta - the denominational m

Originally listed at $400 Ancient Near East, Persian Empire, ca. late 17th to 18th century CE. A cast-bronze bell of an open, hemispherical form with a thick body that has a central perforation meant

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 700 to 330 BCE. An elegant rhyton whose thin walls and exquisite form suggest a high level of artistic skill for its maker. The mouth of the rhyton is

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Akkadian Empire, ca. 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. This is a clay placque showing a trio of mythological creatures, half horse, half bull. Plaques like these are som

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. An elegant cast bronze beaker set on a slightly rounded base with a corseted midsection and tall gently flared walls that lead to a wi

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