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Hemispherical Green Stone Bowl

Hemispherical Green Stone Bowl

Perfectly hemispherical and without lip, this bowl is supported by a small circular base in very low relief that does not provide a good balance.

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Hemispherical Syrian Limestone Seal with Animals

Hemispherical Syrian Limestone Seal with Animals

This seal was carved from a whitish limestone with darker undulated veins that give the impression of an artificial decoration, although it is perfectly natural. The object is pierced by a hole in its rounded part and would have therefore been worn on a string round the neck or wrist (necklace or bracelet).

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Sumerian Marble Seal representing a Dog

Sumerian Marble Seal representing a Dog

This animal, which can certainly be identified as a canid is seated with its legs folded under its body, its head raised and directed towards the viewer.he perforation between the legs and the incisions made with a bouterolle indicate that this object served as a personal seal: it would have been worn suspended from the wrist, the neck or the belt, so that it was always available when needed.

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Roman Marble Relief representing the “Thracian Horseman”

Roman Marble Relief representing the “Thracian Horseman”

Roman Marble Relief representing the “Thracian Horseman”. The detailed image shows a horse mounted by a young hunter who hits a boar with his spear.

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Small Bowl

Hellenistic Small Glass Bowl

This core-formed bowl is simply decorated with lathe-cut grooves just below the lip. The base is slightly concave. Towards the end of the Hellenistic period, glass definitely supplanted clay as a raw material for the manufacture of containers in all areas of daily life. With versatility like no other known material in ancient times, abundant availability, lightness and ease of use, glass enabled the imitation of a wide range of other materials (precious metals especially), whether in the form, the design or the color.

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Compartmented Seal with a suspension Ring

Compartmented Seal with a suspension Ring

This circular seal, slightly larger than the average size, shows a perfectly symmetrical internal decoration composed of circles arranged around a central cross.

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Bactrian Alabaster Chalice

Bactrian Alabaster Chalice

This object, whose shape recalls a chalice, was carved from a monolith of calcite (alabaster) that is similar in color and appearance to the stone commonly used by Egyptian sculptors for luxury tableware in the late 4th millennium B.C. already.

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Small Flask in the shape of a Date
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Small Flask in the shape of a Date

A beautiful, small Roman glass flask that imitates the shape of a date. The vertical grooves recall in a very realistic way the wrinkles of the dried fruit. The vessel is complete and intact.

CHF 2'750 Read More