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14th-15th century AD. A silver ring with D-section hoop, the shoulder area emphasised by a tongue-shaped ornament; an octagonal bezel with a base ...

10th-12th century AD. A gold dress pin with braided filigree sleeve to the upper shank, filigree openwork piriform body with cell to the chest and...

19th century AD or earlier. A matched pair of gold earrings, each a butted hoop, small openwork bulb developing to a larger hollow-formed piriform...

12th century AD. A large sheet-bronze jug with subtly waisted barrel-shaped body, broad shoulder engraved with a panel of script, tubular neck wit...

19th century AD. A rectangular Mamluk style sheet-brass tray with raised rim; band of inlaid silver calligraphic text to the upper face of the rim...

c.1580-1620 AD. A set of four vellum manuscript pages illustrating scenes from an epic tale, each with a panel of calligraphic text and a hand-pai...

19th century AD. A portable leather-bound prayer book of circa 300 folios bearing ten lines of cursive maghribi script per page in sepia ink, key ...

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

11th-13th century AD. A ceramic lion modelled in the round in a couchant position on an elliptical base, with detailing to the head, mane and body...

14th-15th century AD. A group of three part-glazed ceramic vessels comprising: a piriform ewer with trefoil mouth, strap handle, collared neck and...

8th-9th century AD. A mould-blown glass cup, the body moulded in a pale green and the border in turquoise blue colour, on a short foot, the exteri...

18th-19th century AD. An irregular carved wooden stamp for decorating fabrics; high-relief carved Naskh script 'Muhammad Ras?l Allah' (Mohamad is ...

c.1780-1830 AD. A group of seven wood documents or manuscripts, mainly cylindrical or rectangular in profile, with letters and contracts in Arabic...

6th century BC. A heavy bronze helmet of Archaic Corinthian typology, hammered from a single sheet with round-ended straight nose guard, large eye...

Mid-6th-4th century BC. A domed bronze helmet of Illyrian typology IIIA, variant 3, raised from a single sheet with cheek-pieces; two parallel rai...

6th-4th century BC. A Magno-Graecian or Etrusco-Italic bronze helmet of Type B with an offset bowl, double-profiled eyebrow ornaments and small ey...

8th-7th century BC. A broad hammered silver cuirass-belt plaque, decorated in chased low relief, the plaque divided in four horizontal registers s...

9th-6th century BC. A bronze shield facing with carinated conical centre, concentric bands of repoussé geometric motifs, triple pointillé border w...

13th-6th century BC. A bronze discoid shield boss, with raised central dome and drilled perforation for attachment to the surface of the shield wi...

1st millennium BC. A group of two discoid shield bosses, each with central dome pierced for attachment, decorated with circumferential band of hat...

10th-7th century BC. A flat-section bronze band tapering to each end; repoussé bosses in three rows with incised guilloche ornament and pairs of a...

9th-6th century BC. A complete articulated Iron Age bronze horse bit, formed of two independent arms joined in the centre by a ring; at both ends ...

6th-4th century BC. A large snaffle bit comprising waisted round-section cheek-pieces, each with shallow dome to the terminals, two circular voids...

Late 2nd millennium BC. A substantial bronze sword comprising a broad triangular two-edged blade with shallow point, bifid midrib with splayed upp...

1st millennium BC. A bronze two-edged light sword with leaf-shaped blade and square-section midrib; the lower guard U-shaped with finials formed a...

2nd millennium BC. A bronze sword with solid hilt having a penannular guard, a plain circular grip and a conical hollow cast mushroom pommel, the ...

8th-7th century BC. A multipiece bronze dagger with a wing-shaped hilt, composed of a winged pommel, followed by a hilt with two discoid elements ...

12th-9th century BC. A bronze dirk with an ear-lobed hilt, the handle cast on the blade, the base of the blade engraved with simple geometric desi...

2nd millennium BC. A cast bronze leaf-shaped blade with separately cast hilt; blade tapering to a point, incised with four lines of incised linear...

6th-5th century BC. A possible Achaemenian or Caucasian dagger with bronze cylindrical handle, ending in a rounded shape, with convex guard. See G...

Late 2nd-1st millennium BC. A bronze dagger blade with prominently curved guard, which extends out from the ricasso of the blade and partly frames...

1st millennium BC. A bronze dagger with curved horns projecting on either side at top of waisted grip, blade with flat and shallow mid-grip. See C...

13th-6th century BC. A tanged bronze dagger of triangular shape with shallow fuller tapering to a pointed tip, the tang forming an extension of th...

3rd millennium BC. A massive tripartite spear with pointed biconvex leaf-shaped blade and curved tang. See Gernez, G., L’armament en métal au Proc...

13th-7th century BC. A bifacial bronze short sword with waisted blade, full-length midrib, raised crescentic guard and cylindrical openwork hilt e...

13th-7th century BC. A bifacial bronze dirk comprising a tapering blade with channelled midrib running to the tip, square shoulders, integral flan...

13th-7th century BC. A bronze dagger comprising a lentoid-section leaf-shaped blade with rounded tip, integral waisted hilt and slender handle wit...

3rd millennium BC. A long armour-piercing bronze spearhead with lozenge-section head, seven-sided shank and square-section tang tapering to a tria...

13th-6th century BC. A small bronze axehead comprising a tubular socket with four moulded ribs projecting to the rear; thin blade with reinforced ...

Early 1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with tapering cylindrical socket, a horizontally and vertically oriented blade with D-section cutting ed...

12th-7th century BC. A bronze ceremonial tubular-shaped macehead with couchant lions, ribbed cudgel and two rectangular panels of braid detailing,...

Early 1st millennium BC. A hollow-formed decorative mace or sceptre-head formed as a tubular neck with segmented collar, segmented shoulder above ...

13th-6th century BC. A decorated whetstone comprising: cylindrical stone grinder with rounded end; bronze antelope finial with tubular socket and ...

Late 2nd century AD. A short and strong double-edged iron gladius blade of Pompeii typology, with a slim, slightly conical tang bent at the top an...

2nd-3rd century AD. An iron dagger blade (pugio), with a flat tang, the blade squat and waisted, shallow midrib with side channels. See Casprini, ...

1st century BC. A biconical facetted lentoid-section sling lead shot (glans) specimen with inscription '[C] A [ES]' referencing Julius Caesar. Cf....

1st century BC. A facetted lentoid-section lead sling shot (glans) with inscription in Latin letters 'CN' (Cneius) 'MAG' (Magnus) on one side, and...

1st century BC. A lead bullet (glans) of facetted biconical shape with inscription in Latin letters 'CN' (Cneius) 'MAG' (Magnus) on one side, and ...

8th-10th century AD. A set of gilt horse harness fittings and mounts including an iron bit with gilt fittings; a sheet-metal gilt socket fitting d...

9th-11th century AD. A highly decorated ceramic carinated vessel with restored rim and broad shoulder with a circumferential band of four intricat...

9th-11th century AD. A carinated ceramic vessel with broad shoulder, short neck, domed lip and conical base, circumferential band of concentric tr...

9th-11th century AD. A piriform ceramic vessel with tiered shoulder and neck, domed lip and conical base, the raised bands at the shoulder and nec...

9th-11th century AD. A substantial hollow ceramic vessel, biconical in shape, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as ...

9th-11th century AD. A piriform ceramic vessel with short collared neck, domed lip, circumferential band of shallow dimples to the shoulder, four ...

9th-11th century AD. A small piriform ceramic vessel with short neck, domed lip and conical base, decorated around the body with stamped floral fo...

9th-11th century AD. A substantial hollow ceramic vessel, biconical in shape, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as ...

9th-11th century AD. A piriform ceramic vessel with short neck, domed lip and conical base, decorated around the body with floral forms within rou...

9th-11th century AD. A drum-shaped ceramic vessel with short neck, domed lip and conical base, medial band of impressed annulets, triangles and ot...

9th-11th century AD. A piriform ceramic vessel with short neck, domed lip and conical base, textured surface with columns of raised piriform lugs;...

9th-11th century AD. A piriform ceramic vessel with short neck, domed lip and conical base, medial c-section groove flanked by segmented bands; in...