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1st century B.C.-2nd century A.D. A group of votive terracotta figure heads comprising: a head of a priest wearing a conical cap (pileus); a head ...

1st century B.C.-2nd century A.D. A group of votive terracotta figure heads comprising: three heads of Harpokrates, the divine child, one with sha...

1st century B.C.-2nd century A.D. A group of votive terracotta figure heads comprising: two heads of the divine child Harpocrates, crowned with a ...

Mainly 2nd-3rd century A.D. A mixed group of moulded terracotta female heads comprising: one with large wig of curls and pierced lug to the left e...

2nd century A.D. A group of votive terracotta figures comprising: a naked dancer with tambourine (tympanum) and a high propoloma on the head; a na...

2nd-3rd century A.D. A gold ring composed of a hollow D-section body with expanding arms and oval bezel, set with a carnelian intaglio gemstone be...

1st century B.C., cameo c.200 A.D. A gold ring with D-section hoop and oval bezel set with an onyx cameo of a woman facing right, hair held in a c...

3rd-4th century A.D. A gold ring composed of a facetted hoop, volute scrolls at the shoulders, raised oval bezel set with an onyx intaglio with pr...

3rd century A.D. A gold ring of irregular ellipsoid shape, with trapezium-shaped section, widening toward the conical shoulders, hexagonal bezel; ...

3rd-4th century A.D. A gold ring composed of two slender hoops, openwork shoulders with single granule to each, expanded bezels set with oval carn...

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

1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. A gold ring composed of a plaited hoop with pellet to each shoulder and oval bezel, set with a polished ruby cab...

3rd-4th century A.D. An openwork bezel, central cell with inset keeled garnet cabochon, later gold hoop. 2.41 grams, 23.40 mm overall, 18.60 mm i...

1st-2nd century A.D. A restrung necklace composed of biconical amethyst beads of graduated size interspersed with smaller biconvex gold beads deco...

1st century B.C.-3rd century A.D. A matched pair of Hellenistic or Roman gold hoop earrings, each composed of a hoop with faux-twisted and beaded ...

1st-3rd century A.D. An oval-shaped gold pendant set with agate, twisted wire frame, three dangles with pearl-coloured beads below, suspension loo...

2nd-3rd century A.D. A silver-gilt rectangular votive relief depicting a standing goddess, possibly Cybele-Demeter or Artemis Posphoros, in the ac...

1st-2nd century A.D. A bronze ladle comprising a hemispherical bowl with a flat-section handle, ribbed bulb above and round-section hook with coll...

4th century A.D. A short silver spoon with shallow piriform bowl, raised neck with movable pinned hinge attached to the square-section handle and ...

2nd-3rd century A.D. A silver pin composed of a tapering round-section stem and finial formed as the hand of Venus holding a pomegranate between t...

c.4th century A.D. A silver ring composed of a round-section hoop and oval bezel set with a green chalcedony intaglio gemstone bearing a profile m...

2nd century A.D. A silver ring with D-shaped hoop, set with an oval glass gemstone incised with confronting busts of the divine twins Castor and P...

c.2nd-3rd century A.D. A gemstone engraved with a naked man wearing two branches of foliage upon his shoulders; set into a possibly later bronze r...

3rd century A.D. A finely preserved jasper intaglio representing a dolphin transporting a hare upon a flattened vessel; set into an iron ring with...

2nd-4th century A.D. An oval-shaped carnelian intaglio with hunting scene composed of an armoured and mounted horseman, Alexander the Great or an ...

Late 2nd-early 3rd century A.D. An empress or a noble lady depicted in profile on a layered agate cameo, her hair falling to just above the nape w...

4th-5th century A.D. A copper-alloy chest in the form of a shrine, the walls presented schematically with openwork colonnades; the arched entrance...

6th-7th century A.D. An openwork censer with vertical walls and broad everted rim, frieze of alternating panels displaying nimbate saints and cros...

7th-8th century A.D. A bronze cruciform bifacial pendant comprising: low-relief central robed and nimbate figure in orans pose with four busts in ...

11th century A.D. A reliquary cross plate with equal arms, four fastening holes, decorated with nimbate figure of Christ or Saint in orans pose, d...

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

11th-12th century A.D. A bronze plaque fragment with the image of Saint Theodore Stratilates, in military accoutrement, wearing a military cloak (...

11th-13th century A.D. A low bronze vessel with drum-shaped body, the sides with panels of Arabesque knot patterns and geometric figures; the insi...

8th century A.D. A magnificent Khazaro-Byzantine bronze buckle set, the plate ornamented with fine decoration composed of interlaced humans and an...

c.15th century A.D. An alabaster dish composed of a squat, D-section bowl, a male and female head in high relief at opposite sides, with semi-natu...

6th-8th century A.D. and later. A gold ring composed of an early trumpet-shaped bezel surrounded by garnets; with later central blue glass cabocho...

6th-7th century A.D. A gold ring composed of a slender round-section hoop and discoid bezel with nimbate saint holding a sceptre in each hand. Cf....

6th-7th century A.D. A pair of openwork gold earrings with decorative motif composed of two peacocks facing a foliate cross, circular suspension l...

c.7th century A.D. A sheet-gold plaque displaying the bust of Christ surrounded by a cross within a roundel at the centre, triangular pediment abo...

7th-9th century A.D. A silver-gilt belt mount formed as a square plaque decorated with repoussé facing ducks inscribed in a tondo, pearled edge an...

c.6th-7th century A.D. An enkolpion comprising a discoid lead mount with ropework and pellet borders, two suspension loops above, set with a rock ...

2112-2004 B.C. A large tablet with plano-convex cross-section, bearing dense cuneiform text to both faces; used as a voucher for rations of food a...

c.18th century B.C. A ceramic pillow-shaped cuneiform tablet; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Profess...

22nd-21st century B.C. A pillow-shaped ceramic cuneiform tablet bearing eighteen lines of Sumerian text; the document is an account of barley, flo...

3rd-2nd millennium B.C. A ceramic cuneiform tablet with a slightly curved profile, cuneiform text to both faces. 81 grams, 64 mm (2 1/2 in). Spec...

3rd millennium B.C. A pillow-shaped clay tablet bearing seven columns of cuneiform text to one face, one row of text to the reverse. 42 grams, 49...

3rd millennium B.C. A square-shaped clay tablet with lentoid-section body, one face bearing several incomplete columns of cuneiform text. 33.2 gr...

c.19th century B.C. An Old Babylonian clay cuneiform envelope still containing its original cuneiform tablet; the two principal faces of the envel...

3rd-2nd millennium B.C. A large section of a ceramic cuneiform tablet bearing cuneiform script to both faces, one side clearer than the other. 13...

22nd to 21st century B.C. A roughly pillow-shaped ceramic cuneiform tablet, bearing clear cuneiform script to both faces. 79 grams, 56 mm (2 1/4 ...

2nd millennium B.C. A clay cone with domed top, the body bearing a frieze of impressed cuneiform text. 225 grams, 11.7 cm (4 1/2 in). Acquired fr...

2nd millennium B.C. A slender haematite cylinder seal bearing scene composed of standing male and female figures, crescent moons and other motifs ...

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18th-15th century B.C. A banded agate 'eye' bead with plano-convex profile, central piercing and very slender drilled hole across the diameter ret...

Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium B.C. A carved marble seal formed as a stylised vulture with large eye, pierced for suspension; drilled design compri...

31st-29th century B.C. A plano-convex agate seal with drilled figurative zoomorphic design to the base; drilled for suspension. 31.1 grams, 38 mm...

2nd millennium B.C.-2nd century A.D. A group of ten stone seals, including five accompanied by a typed and signed note by the late W.G. Lambert, P...

3rd-7th century A.D. A plano-convex agate stamp seal with inscription to centre and perimeter of base; pierced for suspension, with one piercing o...

3rd-7th century A.D. A plano-convex agate seal with domed upper face pierced for suspension, the underside with an image of an advancing quadruped...

2nd millennium B.C. A pair of differently sized white stone pendants formed as duck's heads, each with recessed circular eyes, one set with a dark...