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Artemis Fine Arts presents World Antiquities: Ancient & Ethnographic Art, a curated online auction celebrating the rich visual traditions of diverse global civilizations across the millennia. Opening for bidding on September 25, 2026, at 9:00 AM MDT, the sale features an exceptional array of legally acquired and meticulously vetted antiquities spanning ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian Americas. Chimu Chancay Miniature Tunic with 13 Shell Pendants, Peru Central Coast. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Lot of Pre & Post Conquest Shell Pendants - Costa Rica. Pre-Columbian and post conquest periods, Costa Rica, Atlantic watershed, ca. 1200 to 1950 CE. Interesting collection of pendants carved from clam shell and bone. Included are 13 Pre-Columbian pendants including axe god and 12 abstract bird-like danglers along with more modern figural pendants carved in the form of standing humans or human masks. Size: 1.25" W x 4.5" H (3.2 cm x 11.4 cm). Estimate: $1,800 - $2,700.

Early 20th C. Peking Chinese Wool Rugs - Pair with Medallions. East Asia, China. A pair of Chinese Peking hand-knotted wool mats, each with a round floral medallion in blue, cream, and brown on an open peach field. The spandrels are set with stepped fret corner brackets, and the borders carry a polychrome diagonal stripe pattern derived from the lishui stripe on Qing court robes. Colors include peach, indigo, cream, tan, and brown. Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800.

Achaemenid Persian Brass Ram's Head Armlet, Penannular. Near East, Persia, Achaemenid Empire. A penannular hoop of brass, its tapering shanks drawn to a pair of confronted ram's heads that nearly touch across the opening. Each muzzle is modeled in the round, with curling horns swept back against the cheeks and eyes set beneath a ridged brow; the necks behind them carry bands of lightly etched dotwork, a punched shorthand for fleece. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Sumerian Limestone Amulet Plaque, Incised Wolf Pair, Early Dynastic. Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumerian. A pale limestone plaque of irregular, roughly trapezoidal outline, its smoothed obverse incised with a pair of lean quadrupeds in profile, likely wolves or a related predator, one striding forward with pricked triangular ears and a punched eye, the second reduced to a hindquarter and a tightly coiled, spiral-curled tail. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Roman / Romano-Egyptian Intaglios (Emerald, Carnelian) + Steatite Scarab. Roman, Imperial period, and Romano Egyptian. A trio of miniature engraved sealstones, two Roman and one Romano Egyptian. The first, a domed cabochon of green emerald, carries an incised amphora with a swelling body and looped handles. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Captivating Abstract Painting by Joro Petkov. Joro Petkov (Bulgarian, b. 1960). Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Paper, n.d. Signed lower right. An enchanting abstract painting by Joro Petkov, a Bulgarian artist known for both abstract compositions and landscapes. This piece is rendered with a vibrant color palette - rich shades of russet red, golden yellow, forest green, teal, cobalt blue, violet, autumnal orange, black, grey, and white. Estimate: $1,700 - $2,550.

Lot of 12 Viking Iron Farming Tools. Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 8th to 11th century CE. A wonderful ensemble of 12 forged-iron utilitarian farming tools of varying sizes, shapes, and functions. First are 3 sickles bearing curved blades, 2 of which have slender tangs, and the largest has a conical socketing shaft. Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500.

Babylonian Stamp Seal - Etana & the Eagle. Near East, Mesopotamia, Babylonian. A modeled terracotta stamp seal whose face is dominated by a great eagle with wings thrown wide, each pinion incised in overlapping rows, with a bearded, robed figure standing behind the bird and grasping an upright staff. The reverse rises to a shaped, hand-pinched back, once likely pierced or gripped for pressing into damp clay. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.

Egyptian Coptic Bone Roundel | Nilotic Boating Scene. North Africa, Egypt, Coptic, Late Antique period. A miniature bone roundel, its slightly domed face carved in low relief with a Nilotic boating scene framed by a raised bead-and-reel border. Three figures crowd the vessel: a clothed steersman stands forward in a belted tunic while two nude companions sit low in the hull, working poles against the river bottom, the mast rising behind them in a curving arc. Estimate: $800 - $1,200.