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Faience vessel in the form of Eros riding a duck

This jug is the finest faience vessel surviving from the Hel…
Limestone statuette of a hunter

The Greek trading colony at Naukratis was founded early in t…
Mosaic glass plate

This large polychrome plate of mosaic glass heralds the star…
Perfume bottle (aryballos) with lion-head mouth, attributed to the Chigi Painter

Despite its tiny size, the main figure scene on this perfume…
Pottery ointment jar (alabastron) decorated in the 'Marine Style'

This vase is decorated in the 'Marine Style', in which motif…
Pottery vase with crinkled rim

When Flinders Petrie excavated the large Middle Kingdom (abo…
Ivory pyxis with St Menas

This small pyxis came from the Early Christian church of S. …
Sèvres porcelain plate showing the Temple of Contra Latopolis (modern Esna), painted by Jacques-François Swebach-Desfont

The decoration for the service known as the Service Egyptien…
Glass gaming counters

These four glass counters are a selection from twenty-four t…
Cross of Timotheos

Nubia was converted to Christianity by a missionary expediti…
Faience flask

This is one of a pair of vessels found in the Isis tomb of t…
Pottery 'Kamares' cup

Pottery in this style is called Kamares ware, named after th…
Silver cup

This type of straight-sided cup with a single spool-shaped h…
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)

This tablet is one of a series that summarises the principal…
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, a page from a manuscript

The archangel Gabriel is an important figure to Muslims, as …