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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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Sword, ?Royal, blade in steel, handle in braided silver wire. Pommel in silver and brass open-work. Sheath in white metal with dragon design in brass. Collected in Tibet during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.

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Sword, blade in steel, curved, double-edged. Hilt in horn.

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Dress sword, deer horn hilt, leather scabbard. Scabbard also holds knife with deer horn handle and mountings in gilded brass. Type: couteau de chasse. Reid (1912): 'Sword belonged to Campbell of Glencoe, the perpetrator of the Massacre of Glencoe.…

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Type: Class 1 double-disc & Z-rod

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Type: Class 1. Front: double-disc & Z-rod Back: flower & mirror & comb

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incised mirror-case, goose & double-disc

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incised serpent Z-rod arch mirror comb

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Figure of Ta-Urt or Taweret standing, on base that has incised inscription signifying: 'the beautiful Ta-Urt within heaven leader of the gods. Come thou to Thebes with the breath of life. Create all laws with the law of life and death in thy grasp.'

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Figure of Ta-Urt in green glazed ware.

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Libation table in limestone with 'hetep' sign (the hieroglyph for offering) carved into the centre, with figure of female and table of offerings, two cups hollowed out for libation. Incised inscription on upper portion of 'hetep' sign and around the…
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