Beautiful Greek Archaic Banded Alabaster Alabastron

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic II to Cypro-Classical I, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A beautiful vessel known as an alabastron, of an elongated teardrop form, hand-carved from imported Egyptian

**Originally Listed At $2000** Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A beautiful vessel known as an alabastron, of an elongated teardrop form, hand-carved from honey-yellow alabaster, w

**Originally Listed At $650** Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A finely carved alabastron with a bulging base, a thick cylindrical body with a tapered neck, and a discoid rim surro

Greece, ca. 500 BCE. A beautiful alabastron made from actual alabaster that would have belonged to a wealthy Greek. This is a long-bodied vessel, with a flat disk for the mouth and a rounded base. The

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom Period, 3rd to 6th Dynasty, ca. 2686 to 2181 BCE. A beautiful free-standing alabastron, hand-carved from banded alabaster of a creamy yellow-white

Ancient Egypt, Late Period, ca. 712 to 300 BCE. A perfect example of an alabastron, made from banded alabaster ranging from a creamy beige to a buttery pale yellow, that glows when held under light. T

A Greek Alabastron from Egypt, ca. 715-30 B.C. A fine alabaster vessel with colored rim and faintly banded. This example is from Egypt but made by the Greeks. Please see the article Greeks in Egypt by

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. mid 2nd to early 1st century BCE. A beautiful core-formed glass alabastron, so-named because many vessels that assumed this form were made of alabaster. The opa

Greek Empire, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. Beautiful glass perfume vial or alabastron, so named because many vessels in this form were made of alabaster, in deep blue glass with yellow trailing combed

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. 5th century BCE. A beautiful wheel-thrown terracotta alabastron, so-named because many vessels that assumed this form were made from alabaster. The vessel presents

Ancient Egypt, Late Ptolemaic to Early Roman Period, ca. 150 BCE to 100 CE. A lovely alabastron, hand-sculpted from banded alabaster ranging from a creamy beige to a buttery pale yellow, that glows wh

South Arabia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, probably Qatabanian culture, ca. 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE. An exceptional and adorable small offering table in beautiful banded alabaster, a member of th

Egypt, Roman Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A hand-carved mortar, formed from beautiful, banded alabaster in hues of honey, peach, and cream. The hefty vessel features thick walls that rise to

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Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A gorgeous marbled stone alabastron, carved in two pieces, with a detachable rim and spout that fits tightly into the neck. The body is tapered and tear-dr

Ancient Greece, early Archaic period, ca. 8th century BCE. A stunning pottery alabastron presenting a slender, elongated body of drop form that gently tapers to a brief slanted shoulder, a narrow neck

Central Asia, Bactria (Bactria-Margiana/BMAC), ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A beautiful, near-translucent alabaster bowl, its body banded by sinuous curves of different cream-colored stone. The bowl

Egypt, Late Period, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A large banded alabaster vessel that may contain some percentage of calcite to increase its hardness -- pure alabaster, a fine-grained cohesive variety of gypsu

Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic, ca 1300 to 600 BCE. Tall, slendor and very fine banded alabster vessel - of the type that gave way to the term "alabastron." Wide base tapering to thin nexk, wide

**Originally Listed At $500** Ancient Egypt, Late Period, ca. 712 to 300 BCE. A perfect example of a tall alabastron, made from banded alabaster ranging from a creamy beige to a buttery pale yellow, t

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A slender and smooth alabastron of round-bottomed form that is hand-carved from banded alabaster in hues of wheat, tan, c

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A beautiful jar of utilitarian form that is hand-carved from creamy honey-yellow alabaster with opaque white veining throughout.

**Originally Listed At $500** Greece, Archaic period, ca. 6th century BCE. A beautiful hair pin, made from cast bronze, capped by a finial of a graceful, abstract avian form, perhaps meant to represen

Levant / Holy Land, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. This is a cream alabaster carved vessel for holding kohl. It has a flat rim and rounded shoulders and, held up to the light, reveals beautiful bands of whit