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  • Collection: Collecting the world

ostrakon 24273.jpg
Ostrakon in red pottery, mentions areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government. Old labels on back. Inscription: Old label: W2

Ostrakon 24274.jpg
Ostrakon in red pottery, mentions areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government. Old labels on back. Inscription: Old label: 6

ostrakon 24276.jpg
Ostrakon in red pottery, mentions areas of land and amounts of wheat, barley and vegetables, probably taxes or rents due to government. Old labels on back. Inscription: Old label: No1

ostrakon24277.jpg
Ostrakon in red pottery, Greek text of uncertain character. Ten lines, partly effaced, written over an earlier text which had been washed out. Old label on back. Inscription: Old label: 7

specimen stone.jpg
Piece of stone wrapped in paper label, from Palmyra. Inscription: hand-written label in ink: Stone from the Temple of the Sun at Palmyra

figure hercules.jpg
Figure of Hercules with lion's skin.

lamp.jpg
Model of an oil lamp.

slab tablet 63438.jpg
One of four tablets in baked red clay, showing same septilinear cuneiform inscription on each. Inscription: signifies: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, patron of (the temple) E-sagil, and (the temple) E-zida, eldest son of Nabopolassar, King of…

female figure.jpg
Female human figure, imperfect, blackened, in limestone.

figure hawk.jpg
Wooden figure of a hawk, crouching, on base of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figure, painted and inscribed.
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