Filters


Price range

Choose Category:

Choose Material:

Enter keyword or LOT no:

Auction Highlights

  • Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
    Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
    Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
    Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
    Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
    Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
    Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600

    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.





    Lot Details

  • Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
    Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900

    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.





    Lot Details

  • The Kelton Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
    'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700

    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'.





    Lot Details

  • Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

    Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 272. IMP TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / L[AETIT]IA AVG N, Laetitia standing facing, head to left, holding wreath with her right hand and anchor with left. RIC V.2 90. 3.00gr, 19mm, 7h

    Good Very Fine. Dark green patina.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £42

    Treveri mint; struck AD 273. IMP TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / HILARITAS AVGG, Hilaritas standing facing, head to left, holding long branch with right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC V.2 80. 4.33gr, 21mm, 1h

    Near Extremely Fine. Dark green patina.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus I, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    Colonia Agrippinensis (?) mint. IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing to left, holding two ensigns. RIC V.2 68; RIC V.4 -. 2.45gr, 16mm, 12h

    Near Extremely Fine. Rare.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus I BI Hybrid Antoninianus.
    Well Struck Hybrid of Tetricus I
    Tetricus I BI Hybrid Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    Uncertain mint. [...] TETRICVS AV[G], bust to right / [P]AX AVG, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and transverse sceptre; V in left field, star in right field. For reverse cf. RIC V.2 118 (Treveri for Victorinus). 3.05gr, 19mm, 11h

    Extremely Fine. Hybrid with reverse of Victorinus.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

    Colonia Agrippinensis or Treveri. [C PIV ESV] TETRICVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / COM[E]S AVG, Victory standing to left, holding wreath and palm. RIC V.1 224. 2.40gr, 18mm, 3h

    Near Extremely Fine.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Hybrid Antoninianus.
    Rare Hybrid Antoninianus
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Hybrid Antoninianus. AD 273-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    Treveri mint; struck AD 273. C PIV ESV T[ETRICV]S CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / VIRTVS [AVGG], Virtus standing to left, holding shield which rests on ground and spear. RIC V.2 280 corr.; RIC V.4 804. 2.03gr, 17mm, 1h

    Near Extremely Fine.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 273-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

    Southern Gallic mint. [...]TRICVS [...], radiate bust to right / [SALV]S AVG, Salus standing to left, feeding serpent rising from altar and holding rudder. Cf. RIC V.1 267 (AVGG). 2.26gr, 16mm, 1h

    Near Extremely Fine.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £39

    Uncertain mint in Gaul. Imitative issue(?). [...]ETRICVS C[...], radiate and draped bust to right / COM[...], Victory standing to left, holding wreath and palm. Cf. RIC V.2 224. 1.65gr, 15mm, 2h

    Extremely Fine.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 271-274.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £33

    Uncertain mint in Gaul. Imitative issue(?). [...]ES TETRICVS CAE, radiate and draped(?) bust to right / SALVS AVGG, Salus standing to left, feeding serpent rising from altar and holding rudder(?). Cf. RIC V.2 267. 2.57gr, 17mm, 12h

    Very Fine.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

    Lot Details

  • Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus.
    Tetricus II, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 270-273.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £33

    Treveri mint; struck AD 273. C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / SPES AVGG, Spes walking to left, holding flower with right and raising her robe with left hand. RIC V.2 270; Cohen 87. 3.08gr, 19mm, 12h

    Good Very Fine.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

    Lot Details

  • Tacitus BI Antoninianus.
    Tacitus BI Antoninianus. AD 275-276.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £72

    Ticinum mint. Struck AD 276. 5th officina. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FELICIT TEMP, Felicitas standing facing, head to left, holding caduceus with right hand and sceptre with left; V in exergue. RIC V.1 140; MER-RIC 3442 (temporary). 4.42gr, 22mm, 12h

    Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

    Lot Details

  • Florian BI Antoninianus.
    Florian BI Antoninianus. AD 276.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £143

    Cyzicus mint; struck AD July-August 276. 3rd officina. IMP FLORIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / CONCORDIA MILITVM, Victory standing to right, presenting wreath to Florian standing opposite, holding spear; T in exergue. RIC V 116; MER-RIC 4530. 3.23gr, 22mm, 11h

    Good Very Fine. Much original silvering remaining.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; From Den of Antiquity Int Ltd, dealer's ticket included.

    Lot Details


Stay up-to-date with the latest from TimeLine Auctions by joining our mailing list