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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Fragment of bitumen cement, with impressions of leaves on one face. Babylon. Inscription: Old label on back: 48

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Fragment of an alabaster vase (rim sherd) wrapped in hand-written label. Label also mentions a 'curious white stone' but this is missing. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: Broken mouth of an alabaster Vase & a curious white stone found among…

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Hand-written label for stone specimen but stone missing. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Stone from the temple of the ....

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Robert Wilson's writing set - small table-top desk with carrying handle, 2 glass bottles for ink, drawer at the front, letter opener, blotter, candle holder.

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

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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

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

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

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