Ancient Anatolian Pottery Bull - 2nd Millennium BCE!

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, 2nd millennium BCE. What a charming little figure! A small pottery bull, probably votive, made to be placed in a temple or at a home altar, shown with enormous horns and a

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. A mold-formed pottery bull head that was intentionally created in multiple pieces. Each horn has a recessed cavi

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. An attractive cast-copper bull, a symbol of both fertility and virility in the ancient world. The slender, elongated body of the figurine stan

Ancient Near East, central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A cast-copper figurine of a bull standing atop a quartet of delineated legs and gently flared hooves.

Ancient Near East, central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A cast-copper figurine of a bull standing atop a quartet of delineated legs and gently flared hooves.

Ancient Near East, Syro-Hittite, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. Wow! A rare example of a wheeled "toy" bull, with a long, hollow, cylindrical body, panel-like front and back legs, and wheels that

Ancient Near East / Turkey, Anatolia, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A bulbous ceramic jar of simple form, in very nice condition for its age. The body is apple-shaped, with a flat base, and slightly

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. An unusually large (about twice as large as we usually see) cast-bronze bull, a symbol of both fertility and virility in the ancient world. Th

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Anatolian, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A lovely and rare polychrome vessel from a culture much better known for its grey schist statues and stelae. The for

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd millennium BCE. A fabulous, cast-leaded bronze bull, a symbol of both fertility and virility in the ancient world. The broad body of

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A pottery plaque depicting a man with the characteristic Mesopotamian long beard riding a bull. The bull is standing and huge, the size of a hor

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Cypriot culture, Late Bronze Age, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built pottery askos used for pouring libations during ceremonial rituals. The quadruped vesse

Ancient Near East / Western Asia, Anatolia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A beautiful and mysterious polished stone bowl, made from hard grey-green stone with sparkling inclusions. The rim is flared and thr

Asia Minor/Western Asia, Anatolia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A wonderful stone bowl with steep side and clear drill marks around its interior, showing how ancient artisans made the vessel. Projecting fr

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, The Levant, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 2nd millennium BCE; Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic Period I, Cypriot culture, ca. 750 to 600 BCE

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

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. An impeccable example of ancient pottery! A marvelous blackwar

Mesopotamia, Sumer, ca. late 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A fascinating pottery cuneiform tablet displaying one of the oldest known writing systems in the world upon both sides of the large rectangular

**Originally Listed At $1200** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. An adorable pottery figure of a bird exhibiting a rotund body adorned with ample remains

Originally listed at $400... Central Asia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A delightful pottery jar presenting a piriform silhouette and black-painted decoration of linear, lattice, and crisscross motifs. The

Near East / Holy Land, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A delightfully formed globular vessel with bulbous applied projections all over its rounded body and two small openings on a projecting, tab-

Asia Minor, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A large, heavy terracotta jar with an amphora-like shape, narrowed neck, and broad, flared rim. The interior of the rim and body are pai

Ancient Near East, Holy Land / Levant, Late Bronze Age, ca. late 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built pottery oil lamp of an open form with a rough yet stable foot and a deeply pinched wick spout.

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. Four pottery cuneiform tablets - known as "biscuits" - all translated. Cuneiform script is one of the oldest kn