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$7.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Handsome Ancient Roman Provincial ... moreThracia"Evil Eye: Motif Silver(Belt/Strap) Applique/Embellishment Brooch/Lapel Pin. CLASSIFICATION: Roman Silver Artifact. Engraved Appliqué. Contemporary pin. ATTRIBUTION: Eastern Roman Empire(Thracia– Present-Day Bulgaria) Third Century A.D. SIZE/MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 31 millimeters. Depth: 14 millimeters. NOTE: Can also be mounted onto a or into a(see below) CONDITION: Very good. Artifact is of sound integrity. Very light porosity(surface pitting caused by contact with earth while buried) Professionally conserved. DETAIL: This is a very handsome. Decorative piece of ancient Roman silver ornamentation. It was probably an ornamental appliqué for a belt or strap, though it could have also been an appliqué for a piece of furniture, wooden chest, or table implement. It’s hard to be certain, but it does appear as if it might have been originally fastened onto a leather strap or belt. In any event the appliqué was discarded or lost almost two thousand years ago. It shows minimal wear, and minimal porosity(surface pitting caused by burial in caustic or acidic soil conditions) Notwithstanding this evidence of usage in the ancient world. It is in wonderful condition, the engraving very sharp, and the artifact is quite handsome. It is the type of decorative ornamentation one would have expected to find on a belt or strap employed by a Roman Soldier. Many pieces of equipment and weaponry were carried on the person of a Roman Legionnaire, many held in place with belts(and buckles) and such ornamental appliqués were quite popular. You'll note the engraved concentric circle on the center of the applique. This concentric circle was intended to provide the wearer a charm providing protection against the effects of"an evil eye" There was an ancient belief that some evil sorcerers or witches had the ability to transmit evil with ju
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$154.25 Shipping Location: Springfield, United States After the water receded, and the cleanup was completed, this set moved to our new warehouse in Springfield, Vermont (actually an old building built in ... morethe mid-1930's). This never happened, and we have gone in other directions now, so I've decided to let them go.
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$9.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States However with the Hellenization of the Greek Peninsula, eventually Macedon was considered Hellenic. The area of ancient Macedon was in the north part of ... morethe Greek Peninsula, and was bordered by ancient Thrace.
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$9.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The reverse of this coin depicts the Roman Goddess of Indulgence and Lenience, “Indulgentia”. She is depicted seated in a curule chair, with a scepter ... moreor “hasta pura” in one hand (by the chair), and in the other hand, outstretched, a patera.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Unspecified Location: Lummi Island, United States The British Museum has one of the finest collections of Assyrian artifacts in the world, centered around the famous sculpted reliefs from the palaces ... moreof the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh. Dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries, these sculptures show the kings' exploits in battle and in hunting, and ceremonies at the Assyrian court.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States Tin and charcoal were imported into Cyprus, where locally mined copper was mined and alloyed with the tin from Britain. Britain’s Bronze Age cultures ... moreincluded the Beaker, Wessex, Deverl, and Rimbury.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The Etruscan mystery has never been more sympathetically evoked, nor more nearly unraveled. Etruria and Etruscan Civilization : The Etruscan civilization ... moreflourished in central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century BC.
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$10.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Size 7 1/4 Genuine Ancient Engraved ... moreRoman/Byzantine/Macedonian Silver Ring Twelfth Century A.D. with Stylized Abstract Design. CLASSIFICATION: Ancient Byzantine Macedonia Engraved Silver Ring. ATTRIBUTION: Eastern Roman Empire(Constantinople) Twelfth Century A.D. SIZE/MEASUREMENTS: Fits ring size 7 1/4(U.S. Diameter: 19mm x 18 1/2mm(outer dimensions) 18mm x 17mm(inner diameter) Bezel: 12mm(height) 12mm(breadth) Fixed Width 2 1/2mm Band. Weight: 2.20 grams. CONDITION: Very Good! Completely intact. Moderately light wear evidenced consistent with ancient usage. Very faint porosity(surface pitting caused by contact with earth while buried) Professionally conserved. DETAIL: A very well preserved silver ring circa 9th or 10th century A.D. As you can see. The ring is very handsome and elegant in design. The"bezel" or face of the ring bears a very distinct abstract design, however though we’ve scrutinized the engraved design carefully, we’re unable to determine what it represents. Some believe it to be the abstract representation of a shaman’s face. However it seems most likely to be the abstract representation of two stags with antlers locked in combat. Given the cultural popularity of such depictions in the region during the ancient and medieval world, this seems most likely. This is a fairly light weight ring, more like a contemporary ring than the thick and lumpy rings often produced during the early years of the Roman Empire. It is a very handsome and complex design, and probably was a very significant personal possession of whomsoever originally owned the ring. There are unmistakable indications that the ring was worn fairly often by whomsoever the ancient owner was. But the ring is in no way“worn out” Before expressing dismay over the fact that the ring evidences some wear, you must keep in mind that the ring was produced by an artisan and sold to a patron or consumer wit
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$7.46 Shipping Condition: New Location: SALFORD, United Kingdom T his coin is gold plated. Gill 2010, p. 182. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 57. Gill 2010, p. 165. Beveridge & Hall 2011, p. 122. Gill 2010, p. 162. ... moreHutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 70. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 68.
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$7.46 Shipping Location: SALFORD, United Kingdom Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 12. Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 85. Ordered: 17 September 1908. Barczewski ... more2006, p. 284. Eaton & Haas 1995, p. 184. Gill 2010, p. 146.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States AethelflAed’s legacy is enigmatic, wrapped up in the “making of England”. But she was a ruler of consequence in an era defined by male authority. [Ancient ... moreOrigins]. In April 1016 Aethelred died of illness, leaving his son and successor Edmund Ironside to defend the country.
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$7.49 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Click Here. Double your traffic. ... moreGet Vendio Gallery- Now FREE! The Buried People: A Study of the Etruscan World by Sibylle von Cles-Reden. DESCRIPTION: Hardback with Dust Jacket: 248 pages. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons; 1955) This is the story of the vanished race which for nearly 400 years. Until the rise of Rome in the fifth century B.C. exercised power over Central Italy and the Mediterranean. Everything about the Etruscans is mysterious. The Romans, their successors in dominion over Italy, sought systematically to delete all trace of them from the face of the earth. Superficially the attempt almost succeeded, for it was not until two centuries ago that archaeology began effectively to restore the Etruscans to history. But in reality the attempt was always doomed to failure because, as this book sets out to show, the soil of Etruria was so steeped in the spirit of the Etruscans that their influence was never extinct or even dormant, least of all among their conquerors, the Romans themselves. Frau Sibylle von Cles-Reden. A trained archaeologist, describes the Etruscan sites and brings them back to life with the imagination of an artist. Each major site in turn: Caere, Vulci, Clusium, Volsinium and the rest, is seen to represent one or another of the major fields of Etruscan achievement: pottery or sculpture, painting or architecture, religion or the Etruscan way of life. Each leads her in turn to a fascinatingly discursive account of a different aspect of Etruscan history, in which her sensitive awareness of the continuity of the race and the timeless quality of their native landscape is matched by a large number of magnificent photographs. The Etruscan mystery has never been more sympathetically evoked, nor more nearly unraveled. CONDITION: GOOD. Clean. Moderately read hardcover with(replacement) dustjacket. Charles Scribner's Sons(1955) 248 pages. Except as noted immediately f
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$12.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Styles and iconography were transmitted to sites such as Mari and Ebla in northern Syria as well as to Iran and as far as Arabia. Nippur by Jean M. Evans. ... moreArbela’s (modern Erbil) strategic location between the great Assyrian cities to the west and south, and the Zagros Mountains to the east, placed it at the heart of the ancient Near East’s most important cities and empires.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Etruria and Etruscan Civilization : The Etruscan civilization flourished in central Italy between the 8th and 3rd century BC. Much of Etruscan culture ... moreand even history was either obliterated or assimilated into the conquering Roman Empire.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States I have made many finds over the years, but this is my first coin hoard.”. (Dave Crisp) Archaeologists believe the hoard will rewrite the history books. ... moreOne of the most important aspects of the hoard is that it contains a large group of coins of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from AD286 to AD293, and was the first Roman emperor ever to strike coins in Britain.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 B.C. and 274 A.D. In total, 17,577 coins were recovered! The hoard has been ... morethrough the Treasure Act process and all of the coins have been conserved to an identification standard – that is the legend and significant features are readable – at the British Museum.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish A King's Book of Kings: The ... moreShah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp by Stuart Cary Welch. DESCRIPTION: HUGE hardcover in dustjacket w/magnificent color plates(199 pages) Metropolitan Museum of Art(1972) Composed in the tenth century by the poet Firdowsi. The"Shah-nameb" or"Book of Kings" is Iran's central literary work, a historical epic peopled with monarchs. Monarchs some of inspiring goodness, others of unmatched wickedness. Also peopled with handsome paladins, beautiful maidens, malevolent witches, and treacherous demons. The particular manuscript of the"Shah-nameb" introduced here by Stuart Cary Welch, Curator of Indian and Islamic Painting at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, is the most sumptuous one every produced. Containing scores of paintings where other sixteenth-century manuscripts contained perhaps a dozen. The Houghton"Shah-nameb" identified with the name of its owner, Arthur A. Houghton) is thought to have been commissioned about 1522 by Shah Isma'il, the founder of the Safavid Dynasty, as a present for his son, Prince Tahmasp. Court artisans and craftsmen continued their work on the 759 folios for the better part of two decades. As a consequence, the book offers a fascinating mixture of artistic styles. The extraordinary quality of the paintings was known even in Shah Tahmasp's time. One commentator wrote then of Sultan Muhammad's page representing"The Court of Gayumars" the boldest painters hung their heads in shame before it" While that superb image. Reproduced within the book in color and gold, is called by Stuart Welch"perhaps the greatest painting in Iranian art: others of the pages he has selected for color reproduction and special comment are clearly in the same area of merit. A number of these eight leaves. Along with others not produced in the book, were presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Ar
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$9.99 Shipping Condition: Used Location: Lummi Island, United States The Story of Feraydun and his Three Sons. It begins with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history. It contains magical ... morebirds and superhuman heroes and centuries-long battles.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Silver Roman Antoninianus(Successor ... moreto the“Denarius” of Emperor“Philip the Arab” with Goddess(of the eternal city) Roma” 247 A.D. OBVERSE INSCRIPTION: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG. OBVERSE DEPICTION: The bust of Emperor Philip I. Cuirassed, draped, with radiate crown. REVERSE INSCRIPTION: ROMAE AETERNAE. REVERSE DEPICTION: The“Goddess” Roma seated upon a shield with a victory statuette in her outstretched right hand. Helmeted, a scepter behind in her left hand. ATTRIBUTION: City of Rome Mint sometime in 247 A.D. SIZE/MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 24 millimeters. Weight: 4.12 grams. NOTE: Coin is mounted free of charge into your choice of pendant settings(shown in sterling silver pendant) And includes a sterling silver chain in your choice of 16" 18" or 20" length, details below or click) We can reverse coin in mounting if you prefer opposite side showing front. DETAIL: This is a very handsome. Exceptionally large silver antoninianus produced in the city of Rome itself sometime during the year 247 A.D. It is in exceptionally good condition, evidencing only very slight wear from circulation in ancient Rome, with all legends and themes very clear and distinct. It was well struck both front and back on an oversized planchet. Unlike most coins of the era, the strike caught the entirely of both the legends and the themes, and this is applicable to both the obverse as well as the reverse. It is without a doubt a superior strike, considerably larger and heavier than the typical specimen of the era. The obverse of the coin depicts Roman Emperor Philip I, draped and with radiate crown; and the legend“IMP M IVL PHILLIPVS AVG” M IVL PHILIPPVS” refers to the Emperor’s name. Marcus Julius Philippis. IVL” is short for Julius, there was no“J” in Roman Latin. The“IMP” preface to his name is an abbreviation for“Imperator” Imperator was originally a title or acclamation awarded to victorious
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The British Museum has one of the finest collections of Assyrian artifacts in the world, centered around the famous sculpted reliefs from the palaces ... moreof the Assyrian kings at Nimrud and Nineveh. Dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries, these sculptures show the kings' exploits in battle and in hunting, and ceremonies at the Assyrian court.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW: First published in 1522 by Shah Isma'il, the founder of the Safavid dynasty, as a present to his son, Prince Tahmasp. Court artists continued ... moretheir work on the 759 folios for almost two decades.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States It consists of an estimated 17,500 silver Roman coins dating from between 32 B.C. and 274 A.D. In total, 17,577 coins were recovered! The hoard has been ... morethrough the Treasure Act process and all of the coins have been conserved to an identification standard – that is the legend and significant features are readable – at the British Museum.
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$8.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Distributed by Yale University Press. The symposium was held 19-21 ... moreSeptember 1996 in Washington, D.C. 281 illus., 11 color plates.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Bibliography, chronology. 308 illustrations, including 130 in full color. 400 pages. Color photos. Includes bibliographical references and index. He wrote: ... more"1A shows a face with slashed eyes (blind or non=seeing), nostriless nose (non-breathing) and "clamped shut" mouth (non-speaking).
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The Gallic Chronicle of 452 A.D., talks about the Saxons ruling over a large part of Southern Britain, also consistent with the rise of the number of ... moreSaxon archaeological material after 450 A.D. The earliest Anglo-Saxon burial in Britain has been dated by archaeologists to no later than 425-450 A.D.
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$13.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States (“Sinai Byzantium Russia: Orthodox Art from the Sixth to the Twentieth Century” by Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Several more general books on Byzantine art ... moreinclude The "Glory of Byzantium", edited by Helen C. Evans, and Thomas F. Mathews's "Byzantium from Antiquity to the Renaissance").
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Britain’s Bronze Age cultures included the Beaker, Wessex, Deverl, and Rimbury. Copper and tin ores are rarely found together, so the production of bronze ... morehas always involved trade. Other significant suppliers of tine were the Taurus Mountains of Anatolia (Turkey), as well as Spain.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States I have made many finds over the years, but this is my first coin hoard.”. (Dave Crisp) Archaeologists believe the hoard will rewrite the history books. ... moreOne of the most important aspects of the hoard is that it contains a large group of coins of Carausius, who ruled Britain independently from AD286 to AD293, and was the first Roman emperor ever to strike coins in Britain.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Ferndale, United States This large Old Babylonian plaque, found in southern Iraq, was made between 1800 and 1750 B.C. It is made of baked straw-tempered clay, modeled in high ... morerelief, and probably stood in a shrine. Her long multi-colored wings hang downwards, indicating that she is a goddess of the Underworld.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States This was to lead to the formation of a single united kingdom of England only a few years later. "King Alfred's Coins: The Watlington Viking Hoard" by ... moreJohn Naylor and Gareth Williams. Written to honor the newly discovered National Treasure that the Ashmolean hopes to acquire in the not too distant future.
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$31.14 Shipping Location: SALFORD, United Kingdom 31 January – Charles Spurgeon, preacher (born 1834). See also: Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria. "464 Naval Brass (Tobin Bronze)". Kormax Engineering ... moreSupplies. Archived from the original on 17 August 2020.
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$9.49 Shipping Condition: New without tags Location: Lummi Island, United States The obverse of the coin depicts the head of the Roman Emperor Nerva, even though the coin was struck by his successor the Emperor Trajan. Even the legends ... moreof the coin refer to the Emperor Trajan, nonetheless the bust depicted is of the preceding Emperor Nerva.
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$11.49 Shipping Condition: New Location: Lummi Island, United States Rather its stories involve love and luck, dreams and demons, prowess and political intrigue. He wore a leather vest studded with shiny spikes and wielded ... morea short cane that was his only prop. That lone cane turned into a sword, a mace, and even the neck of a neighing horse.
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