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Carved wooden spoon from a tomb at Thebes. Cosmetic spoon, carved handle in the form of stems of a papyrus plant (representing Lower Egypt) showing umbels and buds. Given to Alexander Thomson by Lady Aberdeen.

Item: spoon probe

Flat bronze coil. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Ancient bronze spring, Rome'.

Oil jug, red-figure with black glaze, figure of lion on body of jug.

Narrow necked squat lekythos in black-figure glazed red clay, decorated with diagonal lines across body, brown band with white spots round top of body - 'net lekythos'

Red-figured vase (lekythos), squat, shows seated woman with dish in right hand. AV Group- Campanian. Thomson's MS Catalogue: 'Vase with narrow mouth - figure of female sitting - (Sorrento).'

Carved wooden club from the Marquesas Islands. Reid (1912): 'Head carved showing six grotesque figures of human figures.'

Marble statuette (dark green?) of an equestrian soldier ( imperfect).

Image of Ganapati (Lord of Hosts) or Ganesha, son of Siva, in granite.

Small statue of Aesculapius. The head is classical, the body probably 19th century AD. Head given to Fordyce by Lord Bute (see Knight c.1840, MS M111 for two references to 'the head of Esculapius').