Holy Land Terracotta Jar

Comprising seven gold hoop earrings comprising: an example composed of a coiled wire and bead bezel; one with hollow-formed capsule-shaped bulb decorated with a medial twisted wire collar; a crescentic hoop with granulated pyramids to the lower edge and one loop; hollow-formed crescentic earring with coiled collars; a flat-section crescent with hook-and-eye closure; a hollow-formed crescent-shaped earring with expanded central section and remains of hinge closure; hoop with single granulations to lower body, triangular plaque below, dangle comprising gold granulated beads and pearl and facetted blue bead, possibly of stone; including fragmentary examples. 6.69 grams total, 10-27 mm

Fine condition.

Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman.

Roughly pillow-shaped in form and bearing cuneiform text to one face; repaired. 43.9 grams, 52 mm



Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.

Composed of restrung squarish lapis beads, small carnelian rounds and oblates and some glass and other bead types. 60 grams, 66 cm long



Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.