Browse Items (802 total)

  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Ointment holder, one of three listed together. Tall and slender, with a rim.

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Amulet: Buckle of the Girdle of Isis in blue glazed ware.

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Statuette in limestone, imperfect, of a man and wife, coloured red, black and green, both wearing elaborate wigs. On back incised inscription of prayer to sun god Ra.

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Winged scarab, uninscribed, in blue glazed ware. Heart scarab from a mummy, with perforations for stitching to the mummy wrappings. The wings on this scarab have been attached back to front, probably in the nineteenth century.

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Winged scarab, uninscribed, in blue glazed ware. Heart scarab from a mummy, with perforations for stitching to the mummy wrappings.

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Canopic jar, cover representing head of Methsa, inscribed.

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Green glazed shabti, inscribed all round signifying 'Pa-en-my, born of Ates'. Inscription: all round, signifying Pa-en-my, born of Ates

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Ushabti figure of High-priest of Memphis, Dedyu. Traces of red and white pigment. Inscription on front.

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Dummy canopic jar, cover representing head of Qebhsennuf, painted blue, illegibly inscribed in red.

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Ostrakon in red pottery, receipt from Amonious and Socrates, tax collectors at Elephantine, for payment of various taxes by Menophilus son of Orbacis and dated 'Year 21 of Antoninus Caesar, the Lord. Epeiph 9' (that is 3 July AD 158)
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