Yes, I know it is only January, but before you know it, ❤️Valentine's Day ❤️will be here, and do you know what to give that Special Someone on this Special Day? Sands of Time has teamed up with their sister company, Crystal Magus, to offer you a beautiful and empowering selection of ancient beads. Set on sterling silver chains, these gorgeous beads can help manifest energies to create abundance and harmony in your life. Choose from a magnificent selection of garnets, carnelian, quartz, amethyst, jade, and lapis lazuli necklaces. Our gallery manager, Kathryn, swears by the sodalite (pictured here) to soothe and balance.
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$500 USD
Decorated with an anthropomorphic combination bird-headed deity with a crocodile tail in the center of the plate and two similar deities on the pedestal. Chorrera...
$450 USD
With a painted bird in the bowl's center, the bottom of the bowl and the handle beautifully adorned with geometric decoration in dark brown slip....
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From the time of the Prophet Samuel, this remarkable gold locust has a naturalistic body with folded wings and indentations detailing the face, neck, and...
$18,000 USD
Carved in relief with elegantly arched neck and incised eye and beak, with splayed wings and legs, unfinished and still attached at the back to...
$12,000 USD
From the collection of Edgar J. Banks, who writes: "Large pottery cuneiform tablet, found at Senkereh, the ruin of the Biblical city of Ellasar mentioned in...
$3,800 USD
In high relief over a smooth back, the fine voluminous face with full lips, thin nose, staring almond-shaped eyes, short wavy hair visible under a...
$4,500 USD
This tall wide-mouthed amphora with applied double loop handled represents the fully developed Geometric style and illustrates the profoundly significant shift of focus from abstract...
$3,000 USD
A Campanian red-figure skyphos by Frignano painter, depicting a warrior wearing a white bandeau, holding a large circular white shield with ochre crosses and a...
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From the time of the Prophet Samuel, this remarkable gold locust has a naturalistic body with folded wings and indentations detailing the face, neck, and back. Two long gold wires attached to the stomach to form four small legs, and a thicker piece of incised wire attached on either side as the long back legs.
Published: Ilton, Paul "The Bible was my Treasure Map" (1958). Mr. Ilton dedicates a chapter in his book about this piece. Allegedly discovered in a Canaanite temple in Beth-Shen, (pg. 63), he believed it to be "proof of the celebrated locust worship by pagan Philistine and Canaanite priests," (pg. 61). He refers to a ritual in which golden insects were offered, perhaps with the intention to hold back plagues, which is described in the Book of Samuel, chapter 6 verses 4 and 5; Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords. Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY . "From the Land of the Bible" traveling exhibition, , 1953.
Dimensions: 32 mm (1 1/4 inches)
Condition: Intact and in very fine condition overall. A rare and important object.
Provenance: Paul Ilton private collection, acquired prior to 1958.
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