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…
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
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.…
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…