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Gold stater in the name of Titus Quinctius Flamininus
In the last years of the third century BC and the early year…
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Gold tanka of Sultan Qutb al-Din Mubarak Shah I
Mubarak Shah I (reigned 1317-21) ascended the throne of Delh…
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Gold tremissis (shilling) of Eadbald of Kent
After the Romans withdrew from Britain in the early fifth ce…
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Multiple dinar of Muhammad bin Sam
The Muslim Ghurid dynasty (1030s-1215) supplanted and conque…
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Struck gold medal for the recovery of George III by Lewis Pingo
By November 1788 most of his subjects believed their king, G…
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Bronze bust of a woman
This distinctive bronze bust of a woman is one of the earlie…
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Brooch containing a coin of the emperor Philip I
This brooch comprises an aureus or gold coin, set in a plain…
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Gold fibula (brooch) with lions and sphinxes
This remarkable gold fibula has a small bow formed from thre…
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Gold-plated bronze pin
The inscription reads: 'To the Paphian Aphrodite Eubola vowe…
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Pair of disc and amphora earrings linked by a long chain
Following the arrival of Alexander the Great in Egypt in 332…
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Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)
The goddess Hekate was closely connected with Artemis, the h…
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Silver cup
This type of straight-sided cup with a single spool-shaped h…
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Altar frieze
This frieze assembled from different materials is an example…
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Beads and pendants
The archaeologist Leonard Woolley found these beads and pend…
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Brass basin inlaid with silver and gold
Large basins like this were among the most prestigious of th…
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Cast silver statuette from the Oxus treasure
This statuette is part of the Oxus treasure, the most import…
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Child's diadem
This gold diadem was found by Leonard Woolley in one of the …
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Decorative roundel with a bearded face
This decorative roundel, with a frontal bearded face, may ha…
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Electrum vessel
This goblet comes from the Queen's Grave in the Royal Cemete…
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Fluted silver drinking horn (rhyton) with partial gilding
This elaborate silver vessel would originally have been used…
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Fragments of a yellowish glass flask
These are the fragments of a gilded glass flask. The gold wa…
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Gilded silver pieces from a belt
These gilded silver pieces make up a richly-decorated belt, …
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Gilded silver plate
This silver dish, which has been gilded, shows a legendary d…
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Gold bowl
This gold bowl comes from the Queen's Grave in the Royal Cem…
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Gold figures of deities
Most of the thirty-eight small gold figures (five illustrate…
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Gold griffin-headed armlet from the Oxus treasure
This gold bracelet is part of the Oxus treasure, the most im…
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Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure
The Oxus Treasure is the most important surviving collection…
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Gold pendant inlaid with jewels
This gold pendant is inlaid with flat-cut rubies and emerald…
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Gold pendant with inset enamel decoration
This crescent-shaped gold pendant may originally have been h…
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Gold pin with a carnelian head
The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this pin in one of …
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Gold plaque from the Oxus treasure
This embossed ornament is part of the Oxus treasure, the mos…
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Gold-hilted sword in a gold scabbard
This gold scabbard still contains a sword with a gold hilt, …
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Headdress and necklace of gold, lapis lazuli and cornelian
Dug outside the walls of the city, the so-called 'Royal Ceme…
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Inlaid ivory panel of a lioness devouring a boy
This carved ivory panel is one of an almost identical pair w…
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Jade thumb-ring
This is an archer's thumb-ring, designed to protect the thum…
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Muhammad Qasim (attributed to), A picnic at night, a drawing
A party is taking place at night. A prince sits against a tr…
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Queen's Lyre
Leonard Woolley discovered several lyres in the graves in th…
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Rein ring of gold and silver
This rein ring is one of several found in the Royal Cemetery…
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Sceptre
Leonard Woolley found this sceptre in the largest of the gra…
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Silver bull
This silver bull with gold inlay on a copper stand may have …
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Two jade bases for a huqqa pipe
These are the bases of a pair of fine huqqa pipes, no doubt …
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'Parure', consisting of tiara, necklace, pendant, earrings and bracelet
This parure (a complete set of jewellery) consists of five p…
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Astronomical compendium
Astronomical compendia are a collection of different, small …
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Bacon Cup
This silver-gilt standing cup is one of three cups known as …
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Beaver tooth pendant
This incisor from a beaver has been set into a delicately ri…
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Belluno grave group
The original assemblage comprised a fine gold and garnet clo…
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Brandon plaque
This gold plaque was found by a fisherman by the River Ouse …
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Bronze shrine figure
Similar figures to this can be seen mounted on the twelfth-c…
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Buckle
This buckle is of gilded copper alloy with punched geometric…
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Buckle from the sword belt from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
This buckle, found crushed beneath the sword, fastened the b…
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Capodimonte porcelain ewer and basin, made by Giuseppe Gricci
The factory was founded by King Charles III of Naples (1716-…
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Carved agate bowl
This beautiful oval bowl may have been made in the Miseroni …
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Carved bone casket with Romance scenes
This carved bone casket features one of the earliest known m…
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Cast gilt bronze pax
Plaquettes depicting devotional subjects were almost certain…
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Citole
A citole is the medieval equivalent of a guitar. This exampl…
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Clock-watch with calendar and alarm by Jean Vallier
By the early seventeenth century, watchmaking in France had …
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Cloisonné belt-buckle
Though there is no existing evidence, this splendid buckle i…
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Coin-set pendant
This special double solidus of the Roman emperor Constantine…
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Crozier head
A crozier is a staff used by abbots or bishops of the Christ…
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Crucifixion figure of the dead Christ
This figure of Christ is one of the most beautiful surviving…
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Disc-on-bow brooch
The combined elements on this disc-on-bow brooch produce a r…
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Disc-on-bow brooch
This is a gilded copper-alloy disc-on-bow brooch , decorated…
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Double dial cylinder watch with equation of time and calendar dials by David Pons
This splendid example of an 'equation of time' watch has two…
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Dr Dee's magic
The British Museum has a number of objects associated with t…
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Earthenware vase decorated with gold lustre, by Walter Crane
This vase depicts a scene from Greek mythology. The three be…
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Enamel casket
This is one of the earliest Limoges caskets made for secular…
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Enamelled glass mosque lamp, by Philippe Joseph Brocard
In late nineteenth-century Europe, there was a great wave of…
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Enamelled gold locket, by Henri Toutin
This virtuoso piece of enamelling is one of the earliest sig…
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