Catching up with email last night (we’re in the pre-back-to-school-throw-your-routine-out-of-whack phase), I came across a link to Timeline Auctions’ upcoming antiquities offerings. I don’t recall ever having mentioned them before, but they appear to be one of many smaller auction houses who also sell via Live Auctioneers, which we have somewhat hesitantly mentioned before (here [...]

From a Bonhams press release: A delicate wreath made of fine gold oak leaves with acorns, of the type worn by Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, is one of the highlights of Bonhams sale of Antiquities on April 28 in New Bond Street. This stunning artefact, estimate £100,000-120,000, may once have graced [...]

Interesting item coming to auction … from the Telegraph; some excerpts: Dug up by former brick layer Pete Beasley in 1999, it was discovered yards from a hoard of other artefacts that are now at the British Museum. The jewel dates from the first century, measures just 2.5 inches in length and depicts an emperor [...]

Just what you need in your dining room: Replica mosaic is to be auctioned | BBC. For sale: brothers’ Roman mosaic that wasn’t built in a day | Times

Killing some time at the end of the day, I’m looking at the recent results of Sotheby’s Classical auction … among the many interesting items therefrom is this bit of a marble sarcophagus, apparently depicting Medea and her two kiddies: … which got me to wondering … other than perhaps a famous actor or someone [...]

Here’s a very interesting (to me) lot from the upcoming June auction of antiquities at Christies this June. As often seems to be the case, the poor lass is legless, headless, and armless, but what’s really interesting (again, to me) is the evidence on her shoulders that her hair was down. I can’t recall ever [...]

Yesterday I was wading through a pile of Roman glass etc. (none of which was very interesting) and decided I wasn’t going to cover auctions any more. Then, of course, something interesting came up from the Ventura County Collection again, via Bonham’s. Here’s an item at Live Auctioneers officially described as Roman, c. 100-300AD., a [...]

Plenty of stuff from Live Auctions this week, with varying degrees of provenance: Roman, c. 100-300AD., a nice and very small silver (ring; ex Ventura County Collection … not sure what that means) Roman, c. 100-300AD., a lot of 2 small and choice (ditto … a couple of flasks) Roman Egypt, Alexandria, c. 305-30BC., a [...]

… again, without any information about origins. This time, it’s a Roman dagger (pugio) and spear tip: This is lot 901 and is the only Roman item with a photo in this section of the online catalog. Interestingly/suspiciously, it is flanked by A Collection of Roman Glass Artifacts (898), A Roman Earthenware Patera (899), A [...]

Just last week my spiders began picking up items from Live Auctioneers … apparently others have been doing so as well, as both  Dorothy King and ARLT mentioned a few days ago on what was actually the first one that popped into my box. Today I get notice of this “1st to 3rd Century Marble [...]