Ancient Near East jasper stone bull head.

Ancient Near East jasper stone bull head with incised design, c.2nd Millennium BC, Drilled hole for wearability, 2 cm. Provenance: Ex private NY collection.

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumeria, ca. 2500 to 2200 BCE. A charming pair of stone amulets: a seated bird and a bull's head. Wings tucked to the sides, the avian amu

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Southern Arabia, near modern day Yemen, ca. 3rd century BCE to 1st century CE. An impressive and quite noble stone head presenting typical South Arabian ch

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Early Dynastic IIIb to Akkadian Empire period, ca. 2500 to 2218 BCE. An impressively preserved stone head featuring carefully striated

**Originally Listed At $600** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Early Dynastic IIIb to Akkadian Empire period, ca. 2500 to 2218 BCE. An impressively preserved stone head featuring carefully stria

Ancient Near East, Sumerian, Early Dynastic IIIb, ca. 2500 to 2250 BCE. A finely-sculpted and fairly-naturalistic head of a male worshipper, hand-carved from pale-yellow stone with glinting quartz inc

**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

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2112 to 2004 BCE. A fascinating, hand-carved stone head of a male displaying huge, he

Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 650 BCE. An impressive copper mace head in the shape of a standing bull, his horns tilted forward and his tail up and perked. The ancient weapon would have bee

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. An intriguing mace head of conical form bearing a trio of hemispherical lobes protruding from around the upper body. The dark gray

Ancient Near East, probably Anatolia or Mesopotamia, ca. late 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE. A hand-carved stone mace head with a spherical form and cylindrical hafting slots vertically drilled thro

Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3500 to 3000 BCE; Ancient Near East, perhaps Bactrian, ca. 1st millennium BCE. A striking ensemble of 2 Egyptian and 2 Near Eastern stone mace heads all with

Ancient Near East, probably Anatolia, ca. late 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE. A beautiful gathering of three hand-carved stone mace heads of solid, bulbous forms with central hafting holes drilled i

**Originally Listed At $1000** Near East, Anatolia, Turkey or Syria, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. A remarkable altar vessel hand carved from a red-brown stone, the shallow basin resting

Ancient Africa or Near East, Egyptian or Levantine, ca. 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. A hand-carved stone mace head exhibiting white hues and 5 relatively uniform lobes. A central hafting shaft is drille

**Originally Listed At $300** Ancient Africa or Near East, Egyptian or Levantine, ca. 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. A hand-carved stone mace head exhibiting white hues and 5 relatively uniform lobes. A c

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran and Southeastern Turkey, Luristan culture, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE; Native American, Eastern to Midwestern United States, Eastern Woodlan

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic Sumer (Syria), Provincial type, Archaic Period, ca. 2800 to 2500 BCE. A lovely bifacial carved-stone stamp seal bead of rectang

Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A hand-carved stone stamp seal depicting a horse laying with head down around its forelegs, perhaps deceased. The underside displays a dense s

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. An intriguing cast-bronze sculpture of a bull standing on four delineated legs with a narrow body and a head with projec

Ancient Near East, Sumer, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A fabulous necklace composed of 6 blue and yellow glass beads, 4 carnelian beads, 14 jasper beads, and dozens of small faience beads in hues of

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. late 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. A pair of stone stamp seals, one black and one a pale reddish sandstone. The black one has a symbol of a lamassu, a bull-bodied, win

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Sasanian (Sassanian/Sasanid) Empire, ca. 2nd to 7th century CE. A deep brown hematite stone stamp with an intriguing scene on the seal face an

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Tell Brak, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. An abstract gray stone idol of conjoined figures carved with flat bodies surmounted by elliptical heads that each co