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Predynastic, 4th-3rd millennium BC. A carved Naqada cosmetic palette with broadly semi-circular body, rounded arms and a small circular piercing t...

Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC. A brilliant blue-glazed faience head of the dwarf god Bes, pierced feather headdress. 83.3 grams, 73mm (3"). From th...

Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A mixed group of sixty mainly Egyptian composition, glass and stone amulets, comprising beads of various types; ...

Mainly Late Period, 664-332 BC. A mixed group of ten mostly glazed composition beads or amulets, most pierced for suspension, comprising: a blue s...

Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A grey jasper amulet formed as a frog modelled naturalistically in the round in high-relief, sitting on a discoi...

7th-6th century BC. A gold finger ring with D-shaped hoop supporting a rock crystal scarab with hatched border to the lower face, intaglio nude ma...

6th-4th century BC. A gold ring with tapering round-section hoop with faux twisted wire design, carnelian swivel scaraboid with intaglio design co...

3rd-2nd century BC. A terracotta figure modelled in the half-round as a standing female, robed in high-belted chiton, her hair piled on the top of...

4th-3rd century BC. A sheet-silver bowl with squat, D-section body, deep flared neck with curved lip, repoussé gadrooning around the body represen...

Mid 2nd - early 1st century BC. A hemispherical aqua glass bowl with two incised bands below the rim on the outer face. Cf. similar bowl in the Me...

5th century BC-3rd century AD. A necklace composed of gold pomegranate beads, central gold bead with hatched cuboid body with bulbous terminals, c...

c.5th-4th century BC. A restrung necklace composed of carinated carnelian beads interspersed with sheet-gold beads of plain and granulated types, ...

3rd-2nd century BC. A pair of gold earrings, each composed of an oval hoop, openwork chain and 'spherical' dangle comprising two hemispherical she...

c.7th century BC. A gold amulet in the form of an insect with spiked bulbous body, scrolled antennae and shallow domed eyes; suspension loop. 3.3...

6th-5th century BC. A gold ring composed of a D-section annular hoop ornamented with a medial band of plaited gold wire, a single band of granules...

3rd century AD. A silver ring with facetted hoop, expanding at the shoulder to a double bezel with twin ellipsoidal raised cells set with cut and ...

c.1st century AD and later. A gold necklace composed of linked chain, sheet-gold tubular beads with caps, gold beads with carinated body and colla...

1st-2nd century AD. A gold finger ring with ellipsoid cell to the bezel, inset onyx gemstone with intaglio figure of Mercury in travelling cloak (...

2nd-3rd century AD. A gold ring with D-section hoop ornamented with lozenges, scrolled shield-shaped shoulders and oval bezel, with polished oval ...

1st century AD. A red jasper gemstone with a gold mount, depicting the bust of goddess Athena Parthenos (Greek Minerva), wearing the Pseudo-Attic ...

1st-4th century AD. A gold pendant with tubular haematite body wrapped in three gold sleeves, the end two capped, the central sheet decorated with...

Mid 2nd-3rd century AD. A gold pendant with ellipsoid plaque, beaded border to the cell, plain loop; inset cameo with reserved classical profile f...

Late 2nd-early 3rd century AD. A layered agate cameo portraying a noble lady or an empress in profile, hair falling to just above the nape, where ...

10th-12th century AD. A substantial gold necklace composed of a loop chain and cross pendant, the chain with hook-and-loop closure with articulate...

10th-12th century AD. A matched pair of gold earrings, each a hoop with openwork transverse bar, two dangles with turquoise, pearl and amethyst be...

6th-7th century AD. A gold ring with round-section hoop supporting an ellipsoid bezel with raised cell, inset chalcedony gemstone bearing intaglio...

c.7th century AD. A gold ring with tapering hoop and conical bezel set with a domed translucent glass intaglio bearing a zoomorphic motif, seeming...

6th-7th century AD. A discoid silver seal matrix or ring bezel inlay engraved with a Chi-Rho monogram; flat-section. See a similar stamp with fema...

1st millennium BC. A bronze idol formed as a standing female figure wearing a long collared garment, feet protruding from beneath, long arms held ...

c.8th-7th century BC. A bronze terminal formed as a ram's head, modelled in the round with short horns curled to the rear of the head, circular ey...

1st millennium BC. A bronze mirror with discoid body, remains of tinning to the front face, the reverse with sub-circular wreath composed of curve...

6th-4th century BC. A silver penannular bracelet with flat-section hoop, sub-triangular in plan, scalloped shell ornament to the terminals, joined...

2nd-early 1st millennium BC and later. A restrung designer bead necklace with silver pendant composed of carnelian facetted bicone beads intersper...

2nd millennium BC. A silver pendant in the form of a swallow in flight, the upper face recessed and set with replaced jet, limestone and gold inla...

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A heavy silver pendant, the front face divided into five vertical columns, three set with replaced square and triangular po...

Late 4th-early 3rd millennium BC. A silver pendant in the form of two birds facing, with plump bodies and small heads covered by gold cladding wit...

10th-7th century BC. A penannular silver bracelet, round-section hoop expanding to D-section terminals formed as stylised opposed lion heads, with...

5th-4th century BC. A sheet-metal phiale with squat body, broad rim, central mesomphalos and lotus petal decoration in repoussé technique. 285 gra...

5th-4th century BC. A sheet-bronze bowl with squat body, central mesomphalos surrounded by graduated repoussé ovoids. 213 grams, 17cm (6 3/4"). F...

1st millennium BC. A limestone vessel with gently tapering sidewalls, the outer face carved with dense rows of scale-like panels, a raised circumf...

2nd millennium BC. A restrung necklace composed of carnelian, lapis lazuli and gold beads including tubular, biconical, square tube, carinated and...

Mainly 1st millennium BC. A restrung designer necklace composed of graduated biconical and tubular carnelian beads, interspersed with later sheet-...

2nd-1st millennium BC. A pair of electrum gold earrings, each composed of a sheet-gold u-section crescent with D-section wall and slender ear wire...

3rd-7th century AD. A pair of gold earrings, each comprising intertwined hoops, an openwork chain and three piriform cells placed back to back to ...

3rd-7th century AD. A gold earring pair, each comprising a slender round-section penannular hoop with coiled wire sleeves and granule ornament, lo...

3rd-7th century AD. A gold pendant formed as a bird flying left, detailing to the head, eye, body and tail in repoussé, three loops below with gre...

2nd-1st millennium BC. A gold pyramidal pendant with gold wire body, applied piriform cell to each corner, flange collar above, globular polished ...

Mainly 1st millennium BC. A mixed group of forty-one gold beads of various sizes and types, including floral, pellet, ribbed tubular, quatrefoil, ...

c.10th-12th century AD. A gold chain composed of openwork links of X-shaped cross-section, tapering round-section sleeve terminals with medial col...

c.7th century AD. A multi-part belt comprising: fifteen silver elements: a belt buckle of ovoid form, with volutes and foliage decoration on the h...

8th-10th century AD. A suite of sheet-silver harness mounts comprising: twenty-three square plaques with a raised disc to each corner; twenty-eigh...

1st millennium BC. An electrum gold ring or adornment with rectangular-section hoop, expanding at the shoulders to form a ribbed bezel. 5.97 gram...

11th-8th century BC. A bronze spectacle brooch of Type I, formed as a single length of round-section wire with a pair of small reversed loops betw...

9th-11th century AD. A silver penannular bracelet with round-section shank, trapezoidal flattened finials with bands of incised herring bone textu...

9th-11th century AD. A large silver crescent-shaped pendant ornamented with applied pellets around the perimeter, three domed trefoils with applie...

10th-11th century AD. A Smolensk-type concave-section pendant with integral suspension loop; the openwork plaque with three-band border and four f...

11th century AD. A discoid pendant with integral pierced suspension lug, billetted border with looped serpents around the central boss with segmen...

9th-11th century AD. A silver discoid pendant with filigree border enclosing a central lozengiform motif composed of four filigree scrolled cresce...

Later 5th-6th century AD. A silver-gilt plate brooch of a stylised bird with lozengiform body; a cell to the hooked beak, discoid eye, trapezoidal...

6th-7th century AD. A silver-gilt bird with small carinated head, broad disc body and trapezoidal tail; the centre of the back formed as a male fa...