The Past for Sale

Just a few of the marvelous objects in the Christie's antiquities auction, in London on April 2. Scythian gold boar bracteate, 5th century BCE, 2 inches long (5 cm), estimate $20,000-30,000.

A model chariot from Anatolia, bronze, c. 1500 BCE, 10 1/4 inches long (26 cm), estimate $65,000 to 100,000.

Sassanian silver bowl, c. 600 CE, estimate $50,000 to 80,000.

Luristan bronze horse bit, c. 700 BCE, estimate $10,000 to 13,000.

Roman glass sprinkler flask, third to fourth century CE, height 5 1/4 inches (13.4 cm), estimate $5,000 to 8,000.

Elamite bronze ax head, c. 2000 BCE, estimate $5,000 to $7,500.

Alabaster head from South Arabia, c. 1 CE, 4 inches tall (10 cm), estimate $8,000 to 11,500.

Roman glass bowl, 2nd century CE, diameter 3.7 inches (8 cm), estimate $5,000 to 8,000.

And the star of the show, a Roman marble statue of young Hercules, estimated at $170,000 to 250,000.