Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Crowned and bearded head of Persian king to right / Forepart of Pegasus to right. Göktürk -; Troxell & Kagan -; SNG BnF 482-4; SNG Levante 232. 0.71gr, 11mm, 8h

Near Extremely Fine.

Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd., Auction 68, 3 October 2021, lot 96 (since professionally cleaned and conserved), dealer's ticket included; From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Head of Herakles facing slightly to right, with club over shoulder / Head of lion facing slightly to left, with arrow in mouth. Cf. SNG Levante 204-5 (Herakles to left). 0.27gr, 8mm, 7h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Dated RY 29 (67/6 BC). Diademed head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΡΙΟΒΑΡZΑΝΟΥ ΦΙΛΟΡΩΜΑΙΟΥ, Athena standing to left, holding Nike and spear, and resting hand upon shield; monogram of MI to inner left; ΘK (date) in exergue. Simonetta 40a; HGC 7, 846. 3.91gr, 17mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Babylon I mint; circa 311-300 BC. In the name and types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on high-backed throne, right leg drawn back, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings, monogram in wreath in left field, MI beneath throne. SC 82.5b; Price 3747; Müller 734; HGC 9, 10f. 17.02gr, 26mm, 5h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Uncertain mint 62 in Southern Coele-Syria. Struck circa 198-187 BC. Helmeted head of Athena to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟ[ΧΟΥ], Nike standing to left, holding wreath with extended right hand and palm frond with left; anchor above monogram to inner left. Cf. SC 1095.4; HGC 9, 492. 8.20gr, 20mm, 1h

Near Very Fine. Very Rare.

Ex Reeman Dansie, Colchester; Acquired at an UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Collector's ticket included.

Antioch mint; struck 168-164 BC. Laureate and bearded head of Zeus to right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY ΘEOY EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKHΦOPOY, Zeus seated to left on throne, holding Nike with his right and sceptre with his left hand. HGC 9, 620a; Jameson 1700 (same dies); Mørkholm 14, dies A25/P103; SC 1398; SMA 63. 16.38gr, 31mm, 1h

Good Very Fine. Lightly toned. Some scratches.

Ex Bonhams, 24-25 March 2021, lot 559; Ex Nomos AG, Auction 23, 30 November 2021, lot 164 (dealer's ticket included).

Antioch on the Orontes; dated SE 169 = 144/3 BC. Radiate and diademed head to right / Apollo Delphios seated to left on omphalos; BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY to right, EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY to left, monogram of AX between legs, ΘΞP (date) and ΣTA in exergue. SC 2002.1e; HGC 9, 1036a; DCA 179. 3.85gr, 18mm, 1h

Good Very Fine. Pleasant old cabinet tone.

Property of a Southminster, UK, collector.

Phoenician galley to left; [Phoenician B] above, waves below / Persian king or hero, holding dagger and standing to right, fighting lion standing to left on its hind legs; O between; all within incuse square. E&E-S Group IV.1.3.c; HGC 10, 240. 0.82gr, 9mm, 3h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Pseudo-autonomous issue. Dated CY 128 (AD 65/6). Turreted and veiled head of Tyche to right / Astarte standing facing, head to right, holding signa with right hand and cornucopia with left; ΔധΡΙΤ[ധΝ] to right, L PKH (date) to left. Meshorer, Coins 11; Rosenberger 9 (AD 64/5); RPC I 4761 (same). 4.67gr, 17mm, 12h

Near Very Fine.

Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Pseudo-autonomous issue, time of Hadrian. Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right; palm frond over shoulder / ΤΥΡ(as monogram) ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛЄധΣ ΙЄΡ ΑΣ, palm tree with date clusters; ς-NC (date) across fields. RPC III, 3905 corr. (no Phoenician letters on reverse); Rouvier 2160. 3.11gr, 16mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Petra mint; uncertain regnal year. Laureate head of Rabbel to right; Aramaic legend and date around / Veiled and draped bust of Gamilat to right; Aramaic legend around. Cf. CN 226-234; cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 149-154. 3.37gr, 15mm, 11h

Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.

Acquired on the UK art market before 2000; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Petra mint. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; letter(?) before / Crossed cornucopiae; legend between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114; cf. SNG ANS 1438-43; cf. Sofaer 67-9. 3.88gr, 18mm, 12h

Good Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.