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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Shiny black pottery vessel, 'whistle' pot, with erotic couple, buggery scene, Chimu culture, Peru.

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…
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