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Total number of records: 4201

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Textiles163
Objects51
Books and printed items12
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Coin Collection3965
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Quaker Collection8
Brotherton Collection3
English Literature2
Cookery Collection2
Herbert Read Collection1

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society of friends4
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Rome923
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Constantine I (306-37)203
Elagabalus98
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Antoninus Pius65
Constantine II (317-37)64

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Archive Print Item

Folkestone in the 1800's : a history in drawings & poems

O'Brien, Cynthia; Rice, John

[1971/4]

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aureus
Coin

Denomination: aureus

Date(s): 2 BCE - AD 4

Issuer/creator: Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)

Place: Lyons

Material: gold

mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse plain woven cloth. Light brown colour with darker brown stripes formed by double weft threads which are not at standard intervals. Very creased. This is a wrapping from the mumm...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 3900 BCE

Cloth fragment from grave 45 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie.

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 4400 BCE

Cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie. Plain woven with one edge turned under and slip stitched with a single linen thread, into position. The turning appears to be ...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 766 BCE

Cloth fragment from the cemetery at Tarkhan excavated by Petrie.

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Archive Item

Papyrus Fragment

n.d.

Papyrus fragment labelled as 'BC Papyrus 1'. Unknown provenance and no accompanying information.

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Archive Object Item

Seated figure of a goddess

2500BCE-500 CE

A framed painting on plaster, labelled: "Seated figure of a goddess (Sekhet?), the head surmounted by a disc round which is twined the solar uraeus. Before her stands a figure with upraised arms, mak...

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Archive Item

Linen Fragment

n.d.

Framed linen fragment, backed with paper and inscribed on the back by E.B describing some of the provenance of the item.

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Archive Object Item

cuneiform tablet

c. 1000 BCE

A cuneiform tablet, also described as a 'miniature brick book'. Described in a note as from Nebuchadnezzar's Library.

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Coin

Denomination: coins of Constantine the Great

Date(s): c.306-337

Material: copper