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Predynastic Period, Naqada IIB-C, 3500-3200 BC. A squat globular ceramic jar with broad string-hole handles to the shoulders, flat everted rim and...

Early Dynastic Period, 3000-2686 BC. A shallow granite bowl with gently sloping sides and inverted rim, possibly used for containing liquids. Cf. ...

19th Dynasty, 1295-1186 BC. A superb round furniture fitting or pommel made of blue faience for King Ramesses II, the throne name (praenomen) of t...

26th Dynasty-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A composition vessel with lotiform body and shallow foot, circumferential leaf motifs expressed in alter...

Roman Period, mid 2nd century AD. A polychrome plaster mask of a curly-headed young male, with additional curls painted to the forehead in careful...

Late New Kingdom, 1200-1070 BC. A substantial bright blue glazed faience cup with button-shaped base and spherical body with marked neck, painted ...

Late Ptolemaic-Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD. A small glazed composition footed bowl containing nine symbolic food items including a gourd, two flat...

Late Period, 664-332 BC. A full set of sheet-silver finger stalls for the right hand of an important mummy, the knuckles, cuticles and nails well ...

Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A bronze statuette of the god Nefertum modelled in the round in a striding position, hands clenched at his sides...

Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A naturalistic black jasper funerary scarab, carved in the round with detailing to the head, carapace and legs; ...

Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A carved lapis lazuli funerary scarab with detailing to head, legs and carapace, clypeus with six lobes, large h...

4th century BC. An Apulian red-figure oinochoe with ovoid body in orange clay, matte black paint, disc foot, decorated with a wave pattern on the ...

4th century BC. An Apulian red-figure oinochoe with ovoid body, in orange clay, matte black paint, disc foot, decorated with a wave pattern on the...

4th century BC. A red-figures skyphos, decorated on each side with an owl standing between two sprays of olive, the owl’s body shown in profile fa...

2nd century AD. A turquoise-glazed rhyton formed as a conical amphora with a cylindrical neck flanked by twisted zoocephalic handles; the curved b...

Late 4th-early 3rd century BC. A squat core-formed glass alabastron with yellow trailing to the flange rim, dragged trails to the body in a herrin...

Late 6th-5th century BC. A core-formed pale blue glass aryballos with yellow trailing to the rim and shoulder, turquoise to the body, applied loop...

5th century BC. A blue core-formed footed glass aryballos with white trailing to the flange rim and body; the body with vertical impressed ribbing...

6th-5th century BC. A core-formed cobalt blue aryballos, squat in profile with yellow trailing to the rim and shoulder, turquoise waves to the bod...

Mid 4th-early 3rd century BC. A core-formed glass aryballos with small foot, pinched triangular flange rim, strap handle; yellow and blue trailing...

3rd-2nd century BC. A miniature glass bowl with circumferential band of vertical ribbing to the exterior wall, broad flat rim incorporating two sh...

Archaic Period, 7th-6th century BC. A broad silver vessel with carinated profile, concentric bands of acanthus and other ornament between applied ...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A larger than life-size marble head of god Apollo, depicted in the style commonly known as Apollo Giustiniani type,...

1st-2nd century AD. A powerful veined marble torso of an athlete, depicted standing with his weight on his right leg and the left leg brought slig...

2nd-3rd century AD. A pair of life-size marble statues of nude children representing Harpocrates, the god of silence and secrecy, each presented s...

1st century AD. A marble head of a youth, reworked as the god Mercury (Greek Hermes) with two plumed wings on his head, the face symmetrical with ...

5th-6th century AD. An expertly carved marble head of a ram, originally part of a bigger sculpture, natural facial detailing with large almond-sha...

2nd century AD. A pair of marble feet from a statue, each naturalistically modelled with detailed toes and nails; each resting on a rectangular pl...

1st-2nd century AD. A finely carved marble left foot and ankle, once belonging to a larger statue, modelled in the round with detailing to the toe...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A finely carved marble left foot, once part of a larger statue, modelled wearing a sandal with detailing to the toe...

1st century BC-2nd century AD. A finely carved marble left foot, once part of a larger statue, modelled wearing a sandal with detailing to the toe...

1st century BC-1st century AD. A carved marble left hand from a togatus statue, the fingers enclosed in the folds of a toga or palla, thumb expose...

2nd-4th century AD. A substantial bronze statuette of Venus Pudica of the Medici type, standing nude with her head slightly lowered and surmounted...

1st-2nd century AD. A bronze lead-filled statuette of a Roman Genius, personal tutelary or priest, dressed in a tunic and a large toga, the slight...

2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze lar figure of Pythian Apollo, depicted nude with a tall and slender body, carrying a quiver with bossed shoulder stra...

2nd century AD. A fine bronze sculpture depicting the head of young Bacchus or Dionysus, fleshy face with plump cheeks and chin, the smiling face ...

c.43-402 AD. The second largest steelyard weight recorded on the PAS database; a large bronze steelyard weight formed as the bust of Jupiter (Gree...

3rd century AD. A collection of bronze belt fittings comprising: ten ornamental letters reading 'VTERE FELIX', or 'use this well', most with attac...

1st century AD. A blue Zarte Rippenschale glass vessel with squat spherical body, everted rim and raised circumferential frieze of gadroon-style r...

3rd-4th century AD. A wheel-cut glass beaker with U-shaped profile, shallow everted rim, convex base and outer face decorated with circumferential...

1st-2nd century AD. A green-aqua glass toilet bottle with dimple base, flared neck and carination below the mouth, rounded rim. Cf. Whitehouse, D....

4th-7th century AD. A bronze leg from a tripod camp brazier or basin, the shaft with bead-and-reel decoration, a flat panel to the top with a six-...

Reign of Sin-Iddinam, 1785-1778 BC. A ceramic barrel-shaped writing tablet with dense cuneiform text to the sidewall. 1.1 kg, 14.5cm (5 3/4"). Ex...

3rd-1st century BC. A substantial rectangular Nabataean or Yemenite limestone stela, carved with a stylised face of a male dignitary to the upper ...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A substantial Bronze Age sandstone statuette with carved long body and small head, stylised heart-shaped face with recessed...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A head of a nobleman or prince, carved in lapis lazuli; facial features formed in a stylised but semi-realistic fashion, fe...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A cylindrical vessel with alabaster body, the broad base and mouth carved out of black stone; the body decorated with rows ...

10th century BC. A terracotta rhyton with pouch-shaped body, trumpet-shaped filling spout and strap handle, long arched neck with horse-head finia...

6th-5th century BC. An ivory figure of a bull, depicted recumbent with forelegs folded beneath the body, short curving horns and stylised details ...

4th century BC. A matched pair of gold penannular bracelets, each a round-section shank with segmented ropework outer face and hinge to the juncti...

1st-3rd century AD. A large plano-convex boss with gold foil covering, crimped edge, repoussé foliage design, central chrysoprase intaglio with st...

c.8th-6th century BC. A silver knife handle modelled in the round as a couchant lion, elaborate detailing to face, forelegs and mane, tail curled ...

1st millennium BC. A silver figure of a standing female worshipper in flounced robe, hands held to the mouth, segmented cap to the head; hollow-fo...

Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD. A glazed ceramic Bactrian camel modelled in the round standing on an integral rectangular base, neck thrown back, head h...

Han Dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD. A substantial ceramic figure of a mounted warrior; the horse stepping forward with head erect and teeth bared; the rid...

18th century AD. A sheet bronze mask of Shiva (Mallana/Khandoba?) with radiating crown of hooded cobras, large disc earrings, applied beaded bands...

Late Ming to Early Quing Dynasty, 17th century AD. A bronze gui-shaped altar vessel with squat body, everted rim, beast head handles, broad vertic...

Western Jin Dynasty, c.300 AD. A majestic gilded bronze standing Bodhisattva Maitreya figure with Gandharan influence; the substantial statue wear...

3rd-5th century AD. A terracotta head of Buddha with long ears, ridged eyebrows, serene facial expression; ribbed top-knot ushnisha with lotus-flo...

Late Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911 AD. A blue and white glazed porcelain Chinese-made pilgrim flask for the Islamic market; comprising a crescent-shaped...