Auction Highlights
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
'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'.
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Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Vespasian AE 24mm of Caesarea Panias. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Dated RY 18 (78/9 CE). [ΑYΤΟΚΡΑ ΟYΕϹΠΑ] ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙ ϹΕΒΑϹΤധ, laureate head to right / ΕΤΟV ΗΙ (date) ΒΑ ΑΓΡΙ-ΠΠΑ, Tyche standing to left, holding grain ears in right hand and cornucopia in left. RPC II, 2254; Meshorer 142; Hendin 6337; Sofaer 195. 10.58gr, 24mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Beautiful yellow-green patina.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Vespasian AE 25mm of Caesarea Panias. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Dated RY 18 (78/9 CE). ΑYΤΟΚΡΑ ΟYΕϹΠΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙ ϹΕΒΑϹΤധ, laureate head to right / ΕΤΟV ΗΙ (date) ΒΑ ΑΓΡΙ-ΠΠΑ, Tyche standing to left, holding grain ears in right hand and cornucopia in left. RPC II, 2254; Meshorer 142; Hendin 6337; Sofaer 195. 12.43gr, 25mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Titus AE 8 Units. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Caesarea Panias mint. Dated RY 26 of the first era of Agrippa II (74/5 CE). AYTOKP TITOC [KAI]CAP CEBAC, laureate head to right / ETO Kς (date) BA [AΓPΙΠΠA], Nike advancing to right, holding palm frond and wreath; crescent above. RPC II, 2277; Hendin 6314b; Sofaer 229. 11.68gr, 24mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Titus AE 8 Units. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Caesarea Panias mint. Dated RY 29 of the first era of Agrippa II (77/8 CE). AYTOKP TITOC KAICAP CEBA, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / ETO Kς (date) BA [AΓP]-ΙΠΠA, Nike advancing to right, holding palm frond and wreath. RPC II, 2290. 13.05gr, 26mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Titus AE 8 Units. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Caesarea Panias mint. Dated RY 26 of the first era of Agrippa II (74/5 CE). [AYTOKP TITOC KAI]CAP CEBAC, laureate head to right / ETO Kς (date) BA AΓPΙ-ΠΠA, Nike advancing to right, holding palm frond and wreath. RPC II, 2277. 11.89gr, 24mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Titus AE 8 Units. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Caesarea Panias mint. Dated RY 26 of the first era of Agrippa II (74/5 CE). AYTOKP T[ITOC KAICAP] CEBAC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ETO Kς (date) BA [AΓ]PΙ-ΠΠA, Nike advancing to right, holding palm frond and wreath; crescent above. Cf. RPC II, 2276 (no crescent). 12.14gr, 25mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea, Herodians. Agrippa II, with Domitian AE 17mm. Circa 50-100 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Tiberias mint; uncertain date. [ΔΟΜΕΤ ΚΑΙϹ] ΓΕΡΜΑ, laureate head to right / [...]IΠΠA, Nike standing to right, foot on helmet, inscribing shield resting on knee. Cf. RPC II 2264; cf. Meshorer 152; cf. Hendin 6347. 4.57gr, 17mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea Capta. Titus, as Caesar AE 21mm of Caesarea Maritima. 69-79 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
ΑΥΤΟΚΡ [ΤΙΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ]ΣΑΡ, laureate head to right / ΙΟΥΔΑΙΑΣ ΕΑΛ-[ꟽΚΥΙΑΣ], Nike standing to right, resting left foot on helmet, inscribing shield attached to palm tree. RPC II, 2311; Meshorer 381; Hendin 6473; Sofaer 2. 6.91gr, 21mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Judaea Capta, Titus AE 24mm of Caesarea Maritima. 79-81 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
AΥTOKP • TITO-Σ KAIΣAP, laureate head to right / IOΥΔAIAΣ EAΛꟽKΥIAΣ, trophy; to left, Judaea seated and mourning to left with her hands tied; shield to right of trophy. RPC II 2313; Hendin 6476; TJC 384. 11.72gr, 24mm, 12h
Very Fine. Double struck of reverse.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Domitian AE 17mm of Caesarea Maritima. 81-96 CE.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Struck circa 83 CE. Judaea Capta issue. [IMP DOMITIANVS CAES AVG GERMANICVS], laureate head to right / Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and trophy. RPC II 2306; Sofaer 30-2; TJC 393; Hendin 1456. 5.68gr, 17mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Philip II, as Caesar AE 28mm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 244-247.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
MARC IVL PHILIPPOS CESAR, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL METROPOLIS BOSTRA, wreath containing AKTIA ΔOVCAPIA in three lines. Sofaer 54; Kindler 46a; Spijkerman 60; Rosenberger 52. 13.24gr, 28mm, 1h
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman; acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Caracalla BI Tetradrachm of Edessa, Mesopotamia. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Struck circa AD 215-217. AVT • K • M • AV • ANTΩNЄINOC CЄB, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on breastplate / ΔHMAPX EΞ YΠATOC TO Δ, eagle standing facing, head and tail to right, with wings displayed, holding wreath in beak; between legs, shrine with pediment. Prieur 843. 13.14gr, 28mm, 12h
Very Fine. Double reverse struck.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.