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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…

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…

fragment of human skull, probably used as a dipper or cup

Corroded iron object, variously labelled 'arrow head' and 'skewer'.