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Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)
2000 BCE-1940
This collection includes jewellery, beads, ornaments, seals, coins, pottery, cuneiform tablets, facsimilie objects and glass slides. Many items are said to be from Ur, ancient Mesopotamian (now Iraq)...
Writing desk of Shadrach Stephenson
1880
With silver plaque on lid stating 'presented to Mr S. Stephenson by theFriends and Workmen of Manston Colliery 8 May 1880'. Includes 2 rulers, two ink bottles one with stopper and a wooden baton.
Cuneiforms collected by Mr B. Kent
Kent, Benjamin William John
c. -2000
6 cuneiform tablets with descriptive labels, housed in University envelopes. Kent's associate, Mr James Ogden, sent these and other cuneiform tablets to the British Museum in 1929 for analysis. They...