Ancient Greece, GELA, Sicily, 420-405 B.C.E. Bull / Gelas. Bronze

**Originally Listed At $100** Ancient Greece, Archaic, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A cast-bronze bull head pendant with a large, rounded snout, contoured facial lines, two hanging ears, and a pair of

Greece, Attica, Athens, ca. 353 to 294 BCE; Sicily, Syracuse, ca. 405 to 367 BCE. An Attica silver tetradrachm and a Syracuse bronze AE litra. The silver tetradrachm obverse: helmeted head of Athena r

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 Greece, Classical Period, ca. 5th century BCE. A stunning bronze ewer shaped from repeatedly-hammered sheets of bronze with the rim and handle formed via the lost wax (cire perdue) process. Th

Cypriot Early Bronze Age red ware ewer, 2200 -1700 BCE, Ancient Greece, red unglazed pottery, the spouted vessel with incised geometric decoration, old inventory sticker to underside on Plexiglas stan

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A beautiful bronze cheek piece from a Chalcidian helmet, depicting Nike, the winged goddess of victory, speed, and strength, in repousse

Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A fine hollow-cast bronze figurine depicting a recumbent goat with a bulbous body, four tucked legs, a petite curled tail, and a strong neck. The s

Ancient Greece, early Hellenistic period, ca. late 4th to 3rd century BCE. A beautiful cast-bronze situla handle with three primary components. The handle is comprised of a pair of semicircular grips

Near East / Central Asia, Northwestern Iran, Parthia / Amlash, late Bronze Age, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A remarkable bull effigy cast from bronze with a symmetrically proportioned body! Although hollow,

Ancient Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A lidded pyxis presenting an ever-so-slightly flatted, globular body adorned by incised striations, a pair of wonderful bird protomes at the rim,

Ancient Greece, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A storage container known as a pithos, cast in bronze, with a piriform shaped body, a tubular neck with everted bands adorning the mid-section, flaring to a

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean Period, ca. 1200 to 1100 BCE. A rare example of a forged-bronze short sword blade of lengthy form. The T-shaped tang features 6 perforations meant to hold decorative rivets o

Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A simple and suggestive abstract figure of a bull with a long tail, large phallus, long legs and face, and twin horns curved inward towards each other. A

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Late Cypriot Bronze Age, ca. 1550 to 1050 BCE. A graceful, wheel-thrown redware jug with a bulbous body, cylindrical neck, and adjacent strap handle. The highly burnished surfa

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic, from Tarantine, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. Three terracotta wall reliefs depicting Europa slaying the Bull (Zeus) - a favorite theme from Classical mythology - most likel

Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A striking pair of cast-bronze figures from ancient Egypt; a cat and an Apis bull. Seated upon its plump haunches with its sinuous tail wra

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardebil (also Ardabil) region, late Bronze to early Iron Age, ca. 2000 to 1200 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel of recognizable bull form t

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. A slender cast-bronze beaker with a mammiform base, smooth walls which taper slightly, a deep interior cavity, and a

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A very interesting piece, a horse bit with matching cheekpieces that has been lost wax cast into the shape of two dramatic, solid z

**Originally Listed At $1200** Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A very interesting piece, a horse bit with matching cheekpieces that has been cast by the lost wax t

(3) ancient Egyptian bronzes, ex Parke-Bernet, c. 26th Dynasty (664 BCE - 525 BCE), (3) miniature bronzes, incl. a seated cat, Apis bull, and striding pharaoh, each with Parke-Bernet lot sticker label

Greece, probably Hellenstic period, ca. 323 to 31 BCE. This is a larger-than-life-sized foot from a statue, complete with the lead weights inside its hollow feet, using for stabilization of the statue

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, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo