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Specimen of balsam, in a glass test-tube, stoppered with cork and mounted on a card label: 'Balsam used in embalming by Egyptians, from a Mummy'. Inscription: Balsam used in embalming by Egyptians, from a Mummy

Three lumps of lava, mounted on a card label: 'Lava used in building houses in Pompei'. Thomson's MS Catalogue adds: 'A proof that Vesuvius a volcano before AD 79'. Inscription: Lava used in building houses in Pompei

Sample of pitch?, black substance, mounted on a card label: 'Pitch? found in Oil Shop opposite Baths Pompei 1828'.Inscription: Pitch? found in Oil Shop opposite Baths Pompei 1828

Heart scarab, uninscribed, in brown stone, hole for suspension.

Heart scarab, inscribed with the 30th chapter of the Book of the Dead.

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.

Scare-devil in cloth and wood. Used to scare away evil eye from bee hives.

Part of a statuette of a scribe, holding a palette (imperfect - head, shoulders and one arm with hand).

Rectangular stone panel with high relief erotic carving: 6 bays divided by 5 pillars with total of 8 figures. Figures grouped as 3 single (2 female, other indistinct) alternating with 3 pairs, each male and female. Frieze above or plantlike motifs,…

'Part of a relievo of Grecian sculpture, in white marble' - reference in Knight's handwritten catalogue, c. 1840, under 'Antiquities' but no reference in 1887 King's College Catalogue, nor in Reid's 1912 Catalogue.