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Late Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period, 1803-1550 BC. A faience hippopotamus figurine, the turquoise-glazed plump body adorned by painted ...

1st millennium BC. A set of six graduated stone weights of various composition, each with tapering side walls, domed top and flat base. See The Ca...

Late Period, 664-332 BC. A carved black granite head, possibly once part of a stone sarcophagus, youthful face with idealised features, wearing a ...

21st-22nd Dynasty, 1000-900 BC. A hollow cast bronze head of a pharaoh wearing a tripartite wig and a long braided chin-beard; eyebrows, makeup li...

Late Period, 26th-30th Dynasty, 664-343 BC. A bronze mummiform figure of Osiris, arms crossed at the chest, holding crook and flail with highlight...

26th Dynasty, 664-525 BC. A bronze amuletic statuette of the Egyptian god Nefertum, modelled in the round advancing forwards, arms held tightly to...

Late Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period, 1803-1550 BC. A wooden figure carved in the round as a standing hippopotamus, the ears, eyes and t...

c.7th century BC. A terracotta vessel with bulbous body, broad c-section neck, rolled rim, two integral round-section loop handles, cylindrical st...

3rd-1st century BC. A bronze batillum with a male figure enjoying a symposion or a festive celebration, reclining on a couch with feasting tablewa...

Late 4th century BC. A large bronze patera with squat, D-section wall, broad rim, collared handle embellished with a palmette plaque below; the in...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A heavy silver bowl with tapering body, subtly everted rim and basal foot, raised, slender gadrooning around the lo...

2nd-1st century BC. A core-formed glass amphoriskos with piriform body, cylindrical neck, trumpet-style mouth, applied ribbed handles and bulbous ...

6th-4th century BC. A core-formed glass amphoriskos with marvered piriform body with coloured ring to the lip, deep shoulder, cylindrical neck wit...

c.6th-5th century BC. A core-formed blue glass alabastron with tapering capsule-shaped body decorated with a circumferential trail spiralling anti...

5th-3rd century BC. A gold ring with double D-section hoop, expanding at the shoulder to a double bezel with openwork seams, each ornamented with ...

1st century AD. A bronze statuette of Jupiter depicting Zeus Brontaios, the Thunderer, modelled in the round after a statuette by Greek sculptor L...

2nd-3rd century AD. A substantial bronze figure of Venus Anadyomene (Venus rising from the sea), standing nude, holding one of her braids with her...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze statuette of Ceres (Greek Demeter), the goddess of agriculture and fertility, depicted standing and wearing a long sl...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze hollow bust of the philosopher Socrates, with fastening nail on the back and rectangular recess on the rear of the he...

1st-3rd century AD. A bronze bull figure modelled standing in the round, its head raised, with semi-naturalistic anatomical detailing. 170 grams, ...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A substantial Roman Imperial or Hellenistic lead-glazed terracotta plastic vase formed as a bust of Silenus with a ...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A two-handled cup with the body raised from a single sheet of silver resting on a flared foot, the thickened rim de...

1st-2nd century AD. An over life-size composition head of a frowning elderly male with a thick beard; broad facial features with large nose, sunke...

c.1st century AD. A large glass chalice with piriform body, stepped neck with deep lip and splayed foot; iridescent surfaces. Cf. The Metropolitan...

3rd-4th century AD. A clear glass vessel with carinated body, everted neck, three applied trails around the shoulder and rim, short medial ribs ar...

1st century AD. A white opaque glass patella cup with squat D-section body wall, stepped D-section neck and everted rim with broad lip, footed bas...

1st-2nd century AD. A glass bottle or unguentarium produced using a marble effect, tapering D-section body wall, tapering cylindrical neck and eve...

1st-2nd century AD. A clear glass jug or squat bottle with gently tapering walls, broad shoulder, short, stepped cylindrical neck and rolled rim, ...

2nd-4th century AD. A substantial part mould-blown glass bottle or vase, the body formed as an African style head in the round, broad neck forming...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A clear glass skyphos with vertical body walls, tapering towards the rim, splayed circular foot and integral ring h...

1st century AD. A piriform aubergine glass vase with tapering cylindrical neck, flared rim and rolled lip, embellished with an applied circumferen...

4th-6th century AD. A gold ring with rectangular-section hoop, rectangular bezel with openwork sides, u-section at the shorter ends, zigzags to th...

c.1st century AD. A gold ring with round-section hoop and rectangular bezel with rounded corners, set with a carnelian intaglio motif of a robed m...

4th-10th century AD. A drum-shaped marble chest in the form of a tholos surrounded by eight columns with simple capitals, arcades between the pill...

12th-early 13th century AD. A ceramic chalice with carinated body, cylindrical stem flaring to the foot, cream glaze with splashed amber and green...

12th-early 13th century AD. A ceramic glazed footed bowl with splashed amber and green, vertical sgraffito bands to the outer face with double ver...

12th-early 13th century AD. A ceramic dish with carinated body and shallow foot, cream glaze with splashed green blobs around the lip, sgraffito g...

11th-12th century AD. A large bronze paten with sloping walls and a thin everted rim, the interior of the vessel engraved with a scene comprising ...

6th-7th century AD. A bronze discoid polycandelon, or hanging lamp holder, with stylised central openwork Christian cross surrounded by six panels...

5th-8th century AD. A hexagonal gold pendant with scooped edges featuring an inset gold solidus coin of Theodosius II (401-450 AD); the plaque wit...

11th-14th century AD. A cylindrical bone pyxis carved with a dense frieze of architectural columned arcades, populated with fruiting vines, volute...

7th-12th century AD. A worked horn with tapering oval-shaped body and openwork frieze composed of two facing peacocks, column of entwined vines be...

33rd-30th century BC. A ceramic pillow-shaped pictographic tablet, inscribed on one face with a two-tiered pictographic grid, the reverse inscribe...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A rare pink and black mottled stone cylinder seal with incuse frieze composed of cows standing amongst buildings, character...

c.8th-7th century BC. A chalcedony pendant or amulet modelled as the demon god Pazuzu with a pillow-shaped body and monstrous head with horns, bal...

Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. A bronze bowl stand with openwork cylindrical body comprising a pair of round-section hoops, two panels consisti...

8th-5th century BC. A large sheet-silver phiale with squat D-section wall and everted rim, decorated using repoussé technique, with an outer circl...

7th century AD. A silver vessel with piriform body, everted D-section neck, flat rim, circular piercing to the rounded base. See for similar decor...

6th-4th century BC. A substantial sheet-bronze phiale with squat body, everted rim, central mesomphalos and lotus flower ornament in repoussé tech...

9th-8th century BC. A substantial ochre-coloured vessel with globular body and flat base, short spout with loop handle above, larger strap handle ...

8th-6th century BC. A faience vessel and lid comprising: bowl with horizontal bands and lotus-flower to the underside, lateral trapezoidal plates ...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic figure of a courtly lady wearing a flared layered robe with long pendant sleeves, girdled and segmented, broad...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic figure of a courtly lady in floor-length robe with moon slipper, left hand within the long bell sleeve and rig...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic figure of a horsewoman modelled in the round; the horse in advancing pose with one foreleg raised, copious man...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic figure of an advancing horse with neck arched and one foreleg raised, rider in caps and boots, wearing trouser...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic horse modelled in the round, advancing with head slightly turned and one foreleg raised, integral moulded sadd...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic horse modelled in the round standing with head raised and mouth open, naturalistic painted detailing to the he...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic horse modelled in the round prancing on a rectangular base, right leg raised, moulded saddle, cropped and dres...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A ceramic horse modelled standing in the round, naturalistic detailing to the head and body, moulded saddle. 5.6 kg, 41...

11th-13th century AD. A large polished Khmer red sandstone statue of Brahma standing with his four arms bent; the four radiating faces each with l...