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Pax Romana to host sale featuring ancient jewelry, weaponry and coins

LONDON .- On June 20-21, Pax Romana , the acclaimed London antiquities gallery and boutique auction house headed by Dr. Ivan Bonchev (PhD, University of Oxford), will present The King’s Sale. Traditionally a favorite with its international clientele,...

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12 juin 2020

Tiny songbird is East Asia's 'oldest' carved artwork

Miniature songbird on a pedestal, burnt bone, 19.2 millimetres long, 5.1 mm wide and 12.5 mm high, Lingjing site, north central Henan province, Palaeolithic period, between 13,800 and 13,000 years ago. PARIS (AFP) .- A miniature bird sculpted out of burnt...

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Tags: songbird

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14 mars 2020

Getty Villa Museum Presents Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins

Statue of Prince Gudea with a Vase of Flowing Water (detail), Neo-Sumerian period, about 2120 BC, dolerite. Musée du Louvre, Department of Near Eastern Antiquities, Paris. Gift of Boisgelin, 1967 (de Clercq collection). Image © Scala/Art Resource, NY....

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Tags: Early Dynastic Period, Akkadian period, Late Uruk period, Neo-Assyrian period, Neo-Babylonian period, Neo-Sumerian period

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6 mars 2020

British Museum acquires internationally significant 3,000-year-old gold pendant, found in Shropshire

A l ate Bronze Age gold bulla found in the Shropshire Marshes and dated at 3,500 years old. © Trustees of the British Museum/PA Media LONDON .- In May 2018, a metal detectorist in Shropshire made the find of a lifetime: cushioned by peaty soil for 3,000...

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Tags: Late Bronze Age, gold bulla

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3 février 2020

New discoveries in Iraq to be presented alongside British Museum objects for the first time in new exhibition

Statue of King Gudea; dolerite; Tello, Iraq; 2130BC © The Trustees of the British Museum. LONDON .- A new British Museum touring exhibition Ancient Iraq: new discoveries marks the first time that the Museum will tour new Iraq field research in combination...

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Tags: Herakles, bead necklace, Iraq, Head ornament, Ur, King Gudea, Tello, Abu Haba, Demon Humbaba, Nineveh, Parthian horseman

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24 janvier 2020

GALERIE EBERWEIN, Stand 24c at BRAFA, 26 janvier-2 février 2020

Hippopotamus, Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 2050-1780 BC. Indurated limestone (probably from near Esna), 2.7 x 5.8 cm. © Galerie Eberwein. Provenance: private collection, Germany, acquired between 1954 and 1959 in Egypt. Shabti for Nesy-Khonsu, Supreme Chief...

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Tags: Middle Kingdom, hippopotamus, Egypt, 12th Dynasty, 2050-1780 BC Shabti third Intermediate period, XXIst Dynasty, Offering bearer

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23 janvier 2020

Portrait of Lucius Caesar (?), Italy, Julio-Claudian period, first half of the 1st century AD

Portrait of Lucius Caesar (?), Italy, Julio-Claudian period, first half of the 1st century AD. Marble. H 42 cm. © Grusenmeyer-Woliner. Provenance: Peter Lasillo, probably in 1985 or earlier; Sotheby’s, New York, 14 December 1994, n° 92, ill.; Martin Armstrong,...

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Tags: Italy, Lucius Caesar, Julio-Claudian period, first half of the 1st century AD

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23 janvier 2020

GÜNTER PUHZE GMBH, Stand 133a at BRAFA, 26 janvier-2 février 2020

Portrait head of a priest, Egyptian, Late Period, 30th Dynasty. Hard black stone. H 7.8 cm. © Galerie Günter Puhze GMBH. Provenance: private collection of Dr. H. B., Germany, acquired in 1998 from Galerie Günter Puhze, private collection, The Netherlands;...

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Tags: egyptian, Attic, Late Period, Greece, Venus, Roman, 2nd century AD, 30th Dynasty, Portrait head of a priest, 520-500 BC, Black-figured krater

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23 janvier 2020

GALERIE CYBELE, Stand 17d at BRAFA, 26 janvier-2 février 2020

Egyptian Kohl vessel in the shape of the god Bes, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC. Faience, turquoise-green glaze H 6.2 cm. © Galerie Cybele Provenance: private collection, Paris, 1960. Torso of a youth, Asia Minor, Ionia, Smyrna, Hellenistic period, 3rd...

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Tags: New Kingdom, Egypt, Hellenistic period, Ptolemaic Period, 3rd century BC, Asia Minor, amphoriskos, circa 332-30 BC, Ionia, Kohl vessel, god Bes, Smyrna, Torso of a youth, 1500 BC

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22 janvier 2020

ARTANCIENT, Stand 71b at BRAFA, 26 janvier-2 février 2020

Greek helmet, Corinthian type, archaic period, circa mid 6th century BC. Bronze, H 20.3 cm. © ARTANCIENT. Provenance: from the collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), inventory n° H308. Head of a youth, Italy, Tarentum, circa 4th century BC. Terracotta,...

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Tags: Italy, tetradrachm, Archaic period, Head of a Youth, Corinthian type, Greek helmet, circa mid 6th century BC, Tarentum, circa 4th century BC, Macedoin, Mende, circa 460-423 BC

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