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Robert Wilson's pocket mirror, used when travelling. Inscription: Hand-written label on back in ink: my only looking glass while travelling in Egypt and Palestine 1820, 1821, 1822

Test tube with cork lid, wrapped in a paper label. Originally contained a specimen of water from the River Jordan. Inscription: Hand-written label in ink: Water from the Jordan above Tiberius

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

Fragment of stone 'from the fortress at Mooltan', wrapped in old envelope, with hand-written label. Inscription: From the fortress at Mooltan 1849

One of two bottle/jar fragments, in blown glass with a ribbed handle. Found in tumulus.

Figure of a male, seated, in marble (imperfect).

Bottle, Roman glass, greenish with a broad ridged handle and square base, found in Britain. Collected by Dr William Henderson, Medical Officer of Health for Westmoorland, who died in the 1930s, presented to the museum by his daughter. Inscription:…

Amphora (two-handled vase) with deeply ribbed body imitating metalwork, in black glazed red clay. probably Villanovan, pre-Etruscan. Impasto fabric (pre- bucchero)

Head of a female (imperfect) in marble. From Olympia.

Arrowhead with tang, in iron.