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Silver-gilt chalice
This chalice is in very good condition, retaining much of it…
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Spouted jug
This tiny jug of gilt bronze was once topped by a hinged lid…
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Square-headed brooch
This brooch, although fragmentary, is a significant early ex…
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Steatite plaque with Crucifixion scene
The figures of the Virgin Mary and St John raise their right…
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Stoneware bust of Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert (1619-1682) was the grandson of King James I o…
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Stoneware tankard with silver-gilt mounts
This stoneware drinking jug has been salt-glazed. Stoneware …
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Table Night Clock, made by Pietro Tommasi Campani
In the last quarter of the seventeenth century the night clo…
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Tau cross head
This cross head in the shape of a 'T' (the Greek letter 'tau…
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The Gumedruta ring
This ring is engraved with a female bust and inscribed in re…
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The Henry of Blois plaques
The plaques are made of enamelled copper. One contains the f…
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The Portland Font
This superb gold font was designed by Humphrey Repton (1752-…
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The Richard II Quadrant
This is the most spectacular of a group of three horary quad…
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Triple pin set
This unusual and richly decorated set of three linked pins w…
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William Hogarth's gold admission ticket to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
William Hogarth (1697-1764) , the celebrated painter, was in…
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Gold brooches from the Winchester hoard
The Winchester hoard comprises two sets of gold jewellery. E…
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Gold buckle from the Thetford treasure
This gold belt buckle is part of a remarkable hoard of late-…
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Gold fibula (brooch)
This unusual gold brooch was found by someone using a metal …
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Gold ring
This ring has an inscription in Greek reading 'POLEMIOU PHIL…
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Gold torcs from the Ipswich Hoard
Five of these gold torcs were found during construction work…
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Gold torcs from the Winchester hoard
These torcs were found with other gold jewellery in a field …
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The Milton Keynes hoard
The hoard comprises two gold torcs, three bracelets and a ti…
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The Ringlemere gold cup
This fabulous and rare gold cup was found at Ringlemere in E…
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The Winchester hoard
The Winchester hoard is a unique group of gold jewellery. It…
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Double-edged sword
This double-edged sword was found in the River Witham near L…
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Bronze figure of a seated cat
The domesticated cat is probably associated more with ancien…
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Bronze seated statuette of the architect Imhotep
Small bronze statuettes of deities were often placed in temp…
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Bronze statuette of Thutmose IV
The posture of the king kneeling and holding two pots in off…
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Cartonnage case containing the mummy of Tjayasetimu
X-rays show that this mummy contains the body of a young gir…
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Coffin of a woman
The British Museum has a number of mummy cases from a tomb a…
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Coffin of King Nubkheperra Intef
The coffin of King Nubkheperra Intef is a fine example of a …
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Diadem of semi-precious stones and gold
The wide red bands of garnet beads of this diadem are flanke…
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Gilded outer coffin of Henutmehyt
The coffins of Henutmehyt, originally placed one inside the …
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Gilded silver statuette of Amun-Re
The Theban god Amun became nationally important when the loc…
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Gold bangle with gold and silver amulets
This bangle is made of two bands of beaten gold separated by…
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Gold cobra wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt
The rearing cobra was used as a decorative element on furnit…
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Gold openwork plaque showing Amenemhat IV
The purpose of this plaque is uncertain. As there are no sus…
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Gold spacer bars with cats, for a bracelet
These spacer bars originally held in place bracelets made up…
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Gold Taweret necklace
Amulets of the goddess Taweret were one of several types of …
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Green jasper heart scarab of King Sobekemsaf
This is among the earliest heart scarabs known, and the firs…
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Mummy of Hornedjitef
This, the inner coffin, has a fine gilded face, with curled …
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Mummy board of Henutmehyt
The fine quality of Henutmehyt's funerary equipment shows th…
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Mummy mask of Aphrodite, daughter of Didas
In the Egyptian funerary tradition this type of gilded mask …
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Mummy mask of Hornedjitef
Hornedjitef was a priest in the Temple of Amun at Karnak dur…
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Mummy mask of Satdjehuty
The burial of Satdjehuty was discovered around 1820. It prob…
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Mummy mask of Syros
Gilded mummy-masks such as this appear to have been made for…
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Mummy of a young boy with a portrait panel
The mummy is wrapped in many layers of linen, with the outer…
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Necklace of lizard amulets, beads and pendants
Hollow gold lizards alternate with cornelian barrel beads an…
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Necklace with fly amulets
Fly amulets first appeared in the late Predynastic period, a…
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Painted wooden figure of a crouching baboon
The baboon was associated with several deities, in particula…
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Painted wooden figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
This figure of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris stands opposite the god Sok…
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Cast gold lime-flask of a seated female
The cast gold lime-flasks made by the Quimbaya culture are w…
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Cast gold lime-flask of a standing male
Such flasks were used to hold lime, a substance chewed with …
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Cast gold socket with human couple
Various types of Quimbaya gold object, such as ornaments, li…
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Gold pectoral discs
The southern coast of Ghana in West Africa used to be referr…
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Gold ring with feline head in relief
The gold ring has a design of two snakes flanking a feline h…
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Woman's belt buckle
This gold buckle is part of a collection of forty-four items…
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Woman's jewellery
Shown here are a pair of prayer capsules ( bent ), a chest p…
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Wooden ceremonial shield with mosaic inlay
This mosaic covered wooden disc was probably once the centra…
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Wooden spear thrower (atlatl)
This Mexica spear thrower is called an atlatl in Nahuatl, th…
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Black lacquer writing-box
This writing-box is in the decorative tradition of Hon'ami K…
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Bronze bull head
This bull's head and a dragon-like head (now at the Freer Ga…
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Frontispiece to an illuminated manuscript of the Amitabha Sutra
Buddhism was the official royal religion of the Koryo dynast…
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Fuchi / kashira
Fuchi and kashira are ornamental fittings which were attache…
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Gilded bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara
Bodhisattvas appear similar to Buddhas, but with more varie…
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Statue of Tara
Buddhism arrived in Sri Lanka in about the third century BC …
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Gilded bronze figure of Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva, one of the Supreme Buddhas of Vajrayana Buddhis…
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Gilt and lacquered bronze statue of Shaka
The historical Buddha was born as a prince named Siddhartha …
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Gold amulet containing relics
William Simpson left a note in this amulet dated 17 February…
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