Bronze Age Amlash Pottery Zebu Bull Rhyton, TL Tested

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

Ancient Holyland, Levant, Early Bronze Age, ca. 3300 to 2030 BCE. A splendid and quite sizable pottery bowl adorned with a horizontal band of punctated dashes just below the rim. The graceful vessel p

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A blackware kernos or ritualistic altar vessel, the voluminous body resting on a flared

**Originally Listed At $300** Greece, Cyprus, Middle to Early Late Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1550 BCE. A thin, light, and petite pottery handled vessel with a rounded base, thin walls and rim, and a par

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Jordan, Neolithic / Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age, ca. 4000 BCE. This is a pottery head of an idol figure, hand built and shaped with an elongated and conical profil

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A gorgeous pottery jar elaborately incised and hand-painted with a pair of massive zebu bulls

Ancient Near East, Holyland, Bronze Age, ca. 2100 to 1100 BCE. An elegant pottery vessel presenting a narrow, flat base, a conical bottom, a wide, carinated hip, a gently rounded shoulder that tapers

East Asia, China, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 200 BCE. A remarkably realistic pottery figure of a bull standing atop a rectangular plinth presenting a prominent humped back. Head projecting forwards, the

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery pitcher of sizable form with an apple-shaped body, a loop handle, a sq

Near East, Iran, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A terracotta rhyton (ceremonial drinking or libation vessel) in the form of a boot with curved toe in the form of a skillfully delineated mythol

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, Amlash, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of sizable form with burnished surfaces, a flat base, a flared rim, and a pair of ring handles. Amlash vesse

An ancient West Asian Amlash pottery vessel, dating back to approximately 2000 BC during the Bronze Age. The Amlash culture, which existed in what is now modern day Iran, was known for its distinctive

Greece, Late Mycenaean to Archaic, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A beautiful, wheel-made, polychrome amphora in the Mycenaean pictorial style with an elegant body and equidistantly placed twin handles bridging

**Originally Listed At $500** Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. An extremely rare depiction of two hand-built pottery bulls standing abreast atop

**First Time At Auction** East Asia, Western China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE to 220 CE. A large pottery vase, the surface burnished to a fine grey hue and inlaid with bronze bosses. Panels of incised

Pakistan, Indus Valley civilization, Harappa, ca. 3000 BCE. This is a slip-painted terracotta sculpture of a humped Zebu bull with a pot on his head. There is a round hole in the middle of the pot, ex

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

**Originally Listed At $2000** Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2200 BCE. A fabulous tripod vessel comprised of a hemispherical bowl

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Intermediate to Late Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A splendid and quite sizable grayware jar boasting a voluminous, globular body wit

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Meshkinshar, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BCE. A fabulous tripod vessel comprised of a hemisph

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic cup with painted polychrome frieze of an ibex, zebu and lion. 115 grams, 90mm (3 1/2"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. [No R

Late Bronze Age, Ca. 1200-500 BC. This engraved cylinder seal has a detailed pattern of horned quadrupeds (zebu bulls?) cut into it, creating an impression when rolled onto clay or wax. It also featur

**Originally Listed At $350** Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic Period I, Cypriot culture, ca. 750 to 600 BCE. A petite pottery figure of an idol depicted in minimalist form with a point