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Antiquit\u00e4tenh\u00e4ndler Dollinger lebt f\u00fcr unsere Geschichte<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Artikel in MeinBezirk vom 19.4.2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hier gehts zum Artikel<\/strong><\/a>
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Antike Funde \u2013 Sammelobjekte und Wertanlage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

von Reinhard G. Dollinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unter antiken Kleinfunden versteht man Keramiken, Schmuck, kleine G\u00f6tterstatuetten und entsprechende Gebrauchsgegenst\u00e4nde. Diese Artefakte spiegeln \u2013 gemeinsam mit antiken M\u00fcnzen \u2013 das Leben in einer l\u00e4ngst vergangenen Zeit wider. Durch den Trend in Richtung neuer Sammelgebiete (die preislich noch nicht so \u201causgereizt\u201d sind) ist auch bei den Ausgrabungsgegenst\u00e4nden ein weiterer Aufschwung zu erwarten. Antiquit\u00e4tenkauf ist Vertrauenssache \u2013 allerdings kann es nicht schaden, wenn man bereits \u00fcber einige Grundkenntnisse verf\u00fcgt. Keinesfalls jedoch sollten die ersten sammlerischen \u201cGeh- versuche\u201d ohne seri\u00f6se Beratung beginnen. Ausk\u00fcnfte betreffend Echtheit, Alter und historische Bedeutung erteilen der Fachhandel, Museen sowie einschl\u00e4gige \u00f6ffentliche Institute. Unbedingt aber sollte sich der ernsthafte Sammler auch selbst eine kleine Bibliothek anlegen (die sich im Bedarfsfall erweitern l\u00e4\u00dft).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hierf\u00fcr eignen sich besonders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Fachb\u00fccher (die neben einer genauen Erkl\u00e4rung und Datierung auch m\u00f6glichst viele Gegenst\u00e4nde abbilden)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Auktionskataloge (dabei sollte man besonders auf eine exakte und ausf\u00fchrliche Beschreibung Wert legen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Fachzeitschriften (zwecks Hintergrundinformation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Als Anf\u00e4nger ist man dazu geneigt, sich binner kurzer Zeit eine m\u00f6glichst gro\u00dfe Menge an St\u00fccken zuzulegen. Besonders am Anfang sollte man jedoch verst\u00e4rkt auf die Qualit\u00e4t achten, und sich bald auf ein Spezialgebiet festlegen. Der Einkauf sollte die erste Zeit ausschlie\u00dflich \u00fcber den professionellen Handel erfolgen. Das auf den ersten Blick preiswerte Material auf diversen Flohm\u00e4rkten entpuppt sich meist zu sp\u00e4t als \u201cEdelschrott\u201d. Auch das \u2018einmalige\u2019 Sonder- angebot beim netten Einheimischen im Bazar in Kairo erweist sich allzuoft als Flop (dies gilt auch f\u00fcr den M\u00fcnzhandel). Wobei die Mi\u00dfachtung der jeweiligen Ausfuhrbestimmungen bei einem Kauf im Ausland drakonische Strafen nach sich ziehen kann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eine ausf\u00fchrliche Kl\u00e4rung der gesetzlichen Bestimmungen beim zust\u00e4ndigen Konsulat oder der Botschaft des jeweiligen Landes wird f\u00fcr solche F\u00e4lle dringend empfohlen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In den meisten F\u00e4llen unterscheiden sich die Altert\u00fcmer, die unter der Hand angeboten werden, vom Preis her kaum vom Ladenpreis. Sollte sich diesbez\u00fcglich \u201cder Gl\u00fcckskauf\u201d abzeichnen, so ist \u00e4u\u00dferste Vorsicht geboten. Man sollte sich unter derart zweifelhaften Voraussetzungen nie zu einem Blitzkauf \u00fcberreden lassen, auch wenn der Anbieter angeblich noch andere Interessenten an der Hand hat oder (vorgeblich) der Preis \u201cnur\u201d f\u00fcr den Fall des Sofortkaufs gilt. Bei teuren St\u00fccken unbedingt die Identit\u00e4t der Verk\u00e4ufer notieren! Meist ist man besser beraten nur dort einzukaufen, wo man ein St\u00fcck bei begr\u00fcndeten Echtheitszweifeln problemlos wieder zur\u00fcck- geben kann. Beim autorisierten Fachh\u00e4ndler \u2013 der f\u00fcr die Echtheit seiner Waren garantiert \u2013 riskiert man diesbez\u00fcglich keine unerwarteten \u00dcberraschungen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c4hnlich wie beim M\u00fcnzsammeln, geht auch bei der antiken Kleinkunst der Trend sehr stark in Richtung seltener oder ungew\u00f6hnlicher St\u00fccke. W\u00e4hrend in unseren Breiten fr\u00fcher vorwiegend Gegenst\u00e4nde aus dem europ\u00e4ischen Kulturkreis gesammelt wurden (da leichter zu bekommen, Anm.), interessiert man sich heute zunehmend auch f\u00fcr \u2018exotische\u2019 Funde. Beispielsweise gibt es zur Zeit eine starke Nachfrage f\u00fcr sammelbare Zeugen der Hochkulturen in Mesopotamien, dem Nahen Osten und \u00c4gypten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bevor nun der Kleiderschrank zweckentfremdet wird, sollte f\u00fcr die Aufbewahrung besser eine kleine Vitrine angeschafft werden. Dort sind die St\u00fccke gesch\u00fctzt und bieten dem Betrachter auf dekorative Weise einen Blick in die Vergangenheit. Je nach pers\u00f6nlichem Geschmack kann man \u201cseine Sch\u00e4tze\u201d mit beschrifteten K\u00e4rtchen versehen sowie kleine B\u00fcsten und Statuetten auf Holzsockel montieren. Der Gegenstand selbst darf dabei keinesfalls besch\u00e4digt werden. Durch geschmackvolles ausstellen der Sammelobjekte an einem gesch\u00fctzen Ort, entsteht bei etwas Geschick ein ausgesprochen attraktives Gesamtbild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mit zunehmendem Wissen wird sich die Begeisterung f\u00fcr diese sch\u00f6ne Besch\u00e4ftigung weiter steigern. Nach anf\u00e4nglicher Betreuung durch Spezialisten und dem Befassen mit der Materie entwickelt sich sehr rasch ein sicherer Instinkt daf\u00fcr, was sich zu kaufen lohnt und was man besser bleiben l\u00e4\u00dft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auch hier gilt der Grundsatz: \u201cDie Erinnerung an den Preis verblasst mit der Zeit, die Freude am sch\u00f6nen St\u00fcck nie.\u201d<\/em>
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erschienen in: NUMISMATIK SPEZIAL \u2013 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr M\u00fcnzensammler, Ausgabe Nr. 4, Dez. 1993<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE RELATIONSHIP OF PREHISTORIC MAN AND PEOPLE OF THE ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS WITH THE ANIMAL KINGDOM<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

von Reinhard G. Dollinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For thousands of years, animals have played a significant role in the imagination of man. In the religious pictures of prehistoric man, animals were regarded as the earthly manifestation of the gods because of the many characteristics which made them superior to man (strength, sense of smell, speed, fertility), indispensable to him (as a source of food and clothing) or feared by him (snakes, flights of birds).
The portrayal of animals is practically as old as the history of mankind itself. Constant encounters with both wild and tame species led man to begin reproducing them in sculptures and drawings. This meant that favoured animals which had positive characteristics attributed to them could be carried around as a talisman at all times. Dangerous species were depicted, in the hope that these renderings could pacify them and exorcise the threat they posed. Animals were realistically reproduced in Egyptian art, where they were considered to be divine beings. Not only were animal gods worshipped, but gods were also portrayed in human form with animals heads. The conception also prevailed in the Near East that gods revealed themselves in the shape of animals. If the gods themselves were not zoomorphs, they were shown riding or accompanied by animals. The worship of animal\/human hybrids was also commonplace.
As well as protective amulets, votive offerings to gods in place of animal sacrifices, deities of nature in zoomorphic form etc., people had pictures with magical connotations decorating their homes (and increasing the value of them). This concept goes right back to Ice Age cave paintings and Roman murals and artistically fantastic sculptures and floor mosaics.
The subject was treated in a far more down-to-earth way by the Greeks than it was by the Egyptians and the civilisations of the Near East \u2013 animals did not play nearly such an important part in classical Greek art. Hellenism was devoted to realistic, often genre-based animal portrayal. The Romans also created charming and partly true-to-life sculptures, paintings and mosaics featuring animals captured in movement. In early Christian art, animals were used to symbolise God and the faithful (the lamb to represent Christ and his apostles and followers; the dove for the Holy Spirit). Early Christianity laid the foundations of animal allegory which lasted well into the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 3000 BC onwards, so-called animal burials became increasingly common in Egypt, the Near East and Europe. Mostly this was for domestic animals (dogs, cows, sheep, goats, horses) \u2013 graves of game animals (stags, roe deer) seldom being found. The reason for this could be that the chosen animals were to be an escort to the next world (soul guides), as draught animals or mounts, or specifically to be companions for life in the kingdom of the dead. Animals buried separately would appear to be for the purpose of putting a divine animal to rest. It is also possible that they were occasionally buried among the foundations of houses as a sacrifice. In the third century BC, King Ptolemy II established the first zoo known to the western world in Ptolemais by the Red Sea. However, it was used principally as a site for elephant hunts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first century BC, well-to-do Romans began extending their land by creating fenced or walled-in game reserves, which could stretch over an enormous area and were home to both big game and wild boars, hares and rabbits. These served partly for hunting, partly as an additional food supply. From the first century AD, royalty kept their own zoos \u2013 well-known among these are Nero\u2019s zoo and that of Domitian. According to legend, the zoo of Gordianus III at the Porta Praenestina had a stock of 537 animals in 240 AD. Not to be confused with these zoos are the animal pits once located in several squares in Rome (including the Campus Martius on the Tiber), which were for holding wild animals imported for public games in the Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

erschienen 1998 im Fachmagazin ANCIENT, Brighton\/UK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ART FROM MESOPOTAMIA<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

von Reinhard G. Dollinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is about the collection of prehistoric and antique items from one of the oldest and most advanced civilizations in the world. A wide range of everyday items made of stone, metal, clay and even glass have survived over thousands of years, prompting face-paling envy if correctly presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European interest in finds from the Near East took off in particular in the 19th century. Then as now even the smallest fragment would fire the imagination, conjuring up memories of the acts of legendary figures from the Old Testament and their contemporaries. The cultural region encompassed by the boundaries of Mesopotamia ranges from the mountains of Iran to the deserts of Syria, and from Kurdistan to the Persian Gulf. It goes without saying that, even thousands of years ago, the region engaged in intensive trading with other peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether a captivatingly simple stamp seal made from serpentine some four thousand years BC or a small alabaster bowl from just one thousand years BC, jewels of this kind still retain their charm today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amulet seals are considered the oldest visual means of mass communication and continue to make regular appearances in sales of antiquities. The preferred material for their production was stone, although clay and bone were used, if less frequently. Usually measuring less than 1.5-2 cm in diameter, the early examples (Halaf and Ubaid periods, approx. 5,000 years BC) have an incised, geometric design on the seal face. Pieces of this kind fetch between \u00a330 and \u00a350. However, you will have to reach a little deeper into your pocket for the very popular amulets from the Jemdet-Nasr period (approx. 3,100-2,900 BC) which often depict animal forms. The price for average-quality examples which crop up relatively frequently in sales, measuring around 3 cm in diameter, starts from around \u00a350. Large and particularly attractive pieces can fetch prices of several thousand pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The so-called roll or cylinder seals are also eagerly collected. The name stems from the fact that, in contrast to the stamp seals, their cylindrical body was rolled over the surface to which the seal was to be applied. This form of applying seals first occurred in the late Uruk period (3,300-2,900 BC). The seals are often adorned with a sequence of scenes which have been engraved with considerable complexity. Old Babylonian examples (approx. 1,900-1,600 BC) which frequently represent the figures of gods and priests combined with animal forms fetch prices starting from around \u00a3600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clay tablets from three to one thousand years BC (diameter usually 5-7 cm) bearing economic texts are also in regular attendance at sales, fetching from \u00a3180, depending on the import of the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seated female clay figures with voluptuous figures and stylized heads take their name from Tell Halaf, the main site at which they have been found. They date from around 5,000 BC. The size varies from between 4.5 and 10 cm. Attention: There are almost no intact examples of this genus. In general, the items on sale are made up of individual pieces from various different idols which have intentionally been re-assembled. Price: \u00a3100-400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made from alabaster, the \u201cTell-Brak type\u201d eye idols possess an extraordinary charm. The smooth, stylized body is topped with a head reduced to two large eyes. Height 4.5-6.5 cm; price from \u00a3200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sumerian, Assyrian, Persian, Seleukian, Parthian, Sassanian, Byzantine \u2013 life under constantly changing rule has produced a multitude of different forms of vessel in stone and clay. The influence of the Persians brought a new form of metal working to the fore. Frequently-encountered symbols include weapons, tools and religious images from Luristan during the start of the first thousand years BC. Alongside partially-stylized animal forms in bronze, length between 3 and 7 cm (price from \u00a380), so-called religious guidons enjoy particular popularity. The purpose of these standards, adorned with various representations of deities, has never been fully clarified. They currently achieve prices of between \u00a3400 to \u00a3600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the prices quoted relate to pieces in a reasonable and collectable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding this, a beginner in this area should seek advice from an expert specialist dealer who can offer help not only in building up a collection, but also in determining origin and age and detecting inauthenticity. Contact with other collectors also helps new-comers to find their feet in the subject. It is imperative to build up a small library which grows gradually with one\u2019s collection. One of the greatest pleasures, even for an old hand, derives from being able to attribute an item in one\u2019s own collection on the basis of a similar piece in a reference work by one\u2019s self. In addition to acquiring objects of antiquity from specialist dealers, there is always the option of bidding for these items at auction, where the catalogues give information about current, achievable prices. It is certainly not advisable to purchase these antiquities from \u201cblack-marketeers\u201d and at flea markets. Not only do buyers miss out on a guarantee of authenticity, they are also on the road to legal problems. Even if the item in question is original, it remains a matter of dispute why it does not have official transfer documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the export of antique artifacts from the entire Near East is strictly regulated, it is essential to make purchases from reliable sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a closing comment, the collection, keeping and preservation of really important pieces should, as in the past, remain the domain of museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even a fragment which does not cost that much is still richly imbued with history, and should consequently be of interest to the private collector as a testament to the history of man which produced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ver\u00f6ffentlicht 1998 in \u201cANCIENT\u201d, dem sechsmal j\u00e4hrlich erscheinenden Fachmagazin \u00fcber das Altertum<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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