Browse Items (802 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

plaster cast.jpg
Set of plaster casts of seals and gems, set in box with lid, hand-written inscription inside lid.

slab cement.jpg
Slab of cement from Nineveh. Inscription: old labels: 49 on 'front', two hand-written labels in ink on 'back': Curious specimen of cement from Nineveh and W

ball stone.jpg
Carved and polished stone ball, in porphyry, with the letters SYPAKO cut into it above a hand-written paper label. Inscription: Carved inscription: SYPAKO Handwritten label: W A Porphyry ball from Syracuse. 'Not least fraught with interest was the…

slab fragment.jpg
Fragment of a black stone slab, with Sanskrit inscription carved into it.

Osiris 63507.jpg
Figure of seated Osiris in calcite (alabaster), originally gilded.

shabti 63385.jpg
Ushabti figure, in blue-glazed ware, inscribed all round.

cup dish.jpg
Shallow red dish, samian ware? Inscription: handwritten circular label on side: W

figurine.jpg
Tiny figurine in blue-glazed ware, kneeling male clasping his penis which curls over left shoulder. From Panopolis (ancient Apu, or Khent-Min, in Upper Egypt, named Khemmis or Panopolis by the Greeks, north of Qena). Figurine in green glazed ware of…

Robert Wilson sculpture.jpg
Marble bust of Robert Wilson, M D, 1787-1871. Bequeathed by him to Marischal College Aberdeen, 1871.

sabre sword.jpg
Robert Wilson's sabre or Arab sword, curved blade, in a leather scabbard with straps.
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