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Two pieces of pottery (joined together) showing figure of hand playing harp in relief, in baked yellow clay. Inscription: Old labels glued to back: 10 : Two pieces of pottery from Babylon - One showing a hand playing the Harp

A Persian arrow-head, socketed and barbed, from the ancient site of Plataea in Greece.

Lekythos, red-figure in glazed red clay. Shows female figure holding a perfume bottle (alabastron) in one hand and dish? in other. Original caption in Reid's 1912 catalogue describes this as 'holding a distaff and glass'.

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

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…

Amphora, with two ribbed handles, in glazed red clay. Floral designs and figures carrying shields. Black glaze has been oxidised.

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.…

Ushabti figure of Ast, face painted red, wig black, rest of figure white. Inscription on front.

Brass sextant with silver scale, signed (see inscription), in a red leather box. Made in the early 19th Century and used by Robert Wilson in his Eastern travels, 1820-23. Inscription: engraved just below the scale Schmalcalder 82 Strand London

Oil painting, seated portrait of Robert Wilson wearing ' Turkish costume', and tucked into the waistband of this costume is a Persian dagger and sheath (ABDUA 63523). Scroll in L hand with the list of Alexander's Conquests. Background shows the Ruins…