ANCIENT NEAR EAST TERRACOTTA BRICK

With sumerian inscriptions. Circa 3rd-2nd millennium b.c. provenance: provenance: private new york, new york, usa collection. Condition: intact.

An important terracotta brick, The brick is rectangular with a border panel enclosing the text.ca. 604 to 561 BCE. Provenance: Ex Private NY Collection . Length: 7.8 inches Width: 5 inches

Ancient Near East, Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, ca. 604 to 561 BCE. An important terracotta brick, stamped with a dedication to the most famous of all Kings of Babylon – Nebuc

Ancient Near East, Neo-Babylonian Dynasty, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, ca. 604 to 561 BCE. Two fragments of an important terracotta brick, inscribed with a fragmentary dedication to the most famous of

Ancient Near East, Syria, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. An intriguing idol of abstract form, hand-built from pottery, with a columnar body and a slightly flared base. The slender figure ho

Ancient Near East Terracotta Harpocrates Figure. Size: 7.5'' x 3'' x 1.75'' (19 x 8 x 4 cm). Provenance: Ex Collection of Lawrence Buchanan and Dr. Enrique von Kiguel who acquired items in their colle

Height: 4.7 inches. Width: 7.9 inches. Height: 12cm Width: 20cm

Ancient Near East Holy Land, Iron Age II, ca. 800 to 500 BCE ,An attractive wheel-thrown terracotta thymiaterion (or incense burner) which boasts an elegant chalice-form body It has a ringed foot, a t

Ancient Near East, Sumerian, ca. 2100 BCE. A beautiful terracotta foundation cone with roughly three-quarters of its conical body wrapped in dense cuneiform text. A narrow tip gradually widens to a th

Ancient Near East Neo-Babylonian Style Clay Temple Foundation Brick. Size: 8.25'' x 5.5'' x 1.25'' (21 x 14 x 3 cm). Together with a Near Eastern Assyrian style cylinder seal stone. Size: 1.25'' x .5'

A Tell Halaf Terracotta Mother Goddess Figure, Ancient Near East, Anatolia (central Turkey) and northern Syria, Tell Halaf culture. A wonderful, hand-built pottery fertility figure seated upon bent le

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A standing steatopygous idol presenting a form that emphasizes her fertility with exaggerated broad hips and buttocks, perky breasts,

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000 to 1600 BCE. A fine, press-molded terracotta plaque featuring the intimidating countenance of the legendary demon giant Humbaba

Ancient Near East, Amlash Empire, early 1st Millennium BCE. Standing figure with exaggerated wide hips, thighs, and buttocks - emphasizing her fertility - attenuated arms, relatively long tapering nec

Ancient Near East, Northern Syria, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 2200 to 1900 BCE. An enticing, hand-built pottery figure of Astarte - known as Ishtar in parts of Mesopotamia - the goddess associated with

Ancient Near East, Sumeria or Babylon, ca. 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. A well-preserved ceramic plaque bearing a mold-made depiction of a mythical beast. The animal has four legs, with the front two go

Ancient Near East, Sumeria, ca. 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. An impressed decorative ceramic panel depicting the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (also known as Astarte), shown here as she often is wit

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. Four pottery cuneiform tablets - known as "biscuits" - all translated. Cuneiform script is one of the oldest kn

Ancient Near East, Sumeria, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A fine example of a foundation cone with roughly three-quarters of its conical body wrapped in dense cuneiform text. The body tapers to a rou

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Akkadian Empire, ca. 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. This is a clay placque showing a trio of mythological creatures, half horse, half bull. Plaques like these are som

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 Near East, Sumeria, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A ceramic mold used to make relief plaques or friezes of a priestly figure. The figure stands in profile, one hand raised as if ge

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A mold-made earthenware plaque showing a standing male figure in a striding pose. He has a long and impressive beard in the style of distinguish

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Iron Age II, ca. late 8th to early 7th century BCE. A tall terracotta beer strainer used to separate solid ingredients from the liquid inside of a larger vessel. This sie