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Slab of cement from Nineveh. Inscription: old labels: 49 on 'front', two hand-written labels in ink on 'back': Curious specimen of cement from Nineveh and W

Fragment of a black stone slab, with Sanskrit inscription carved into it.

Fragment of bitumen cement, with impressions of leaves on one face. Babylon. Inscription: Old label on back: 48

Basalt slab inscribed with Greek magical gnostic names. From Nisibis, Mesopotamia.

Marble slab, inscribed with signs of the Zodiac, from ruins of Dara, Mesopotamia.

After this come a number of small Vases, plain black, sometimes also with slight ornamentation in raised white or in lines incised down to the ground colour of clay: in one case, both styles are used together. Such ware is late; and is found in…

After this come a number of small Vases, plain black, sometimes also with slight ornamentation in raised white or in lines incised down to the ground colour of clay: in one case, both styles are used together. Such ware is late; and is found in…

Skyphos (a deep bowl for drinking wine), red-figure , in black glazed red clay. Both sides show two female figures in conversation.

Plaster cast of the skull of Robert the Bruce, on plaster base (slip catalogue notes c. 1274-1329)

Human skulls carved in stone, with tenons at the back for fitting into a wall Aztec or Tlascalan style, Mexico, A.D.1450-1520. Described by Dr McPherson as from the southern state of Oaxaca, the skulls are more likely to be from the Atlantic coast…