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Cookery Manuscripts
2500 BCE - 2000
Items cover cookery, household management, medicine and remedies, including ancient texts.
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...
Book of the Dead
1200BCE-850 BCE
Framed papyrus, labelled: "Papyrus No. 2. Book of the Dead, written for Jed-Khensu, who bears the title of "Priest (nab) of Amen, scribe of the temple of Amen and scribe of the temple of Mut". The s...
cuneiform tablet
c2200 BCE
A cuneiform tablet of pink clay in a rectangular form with text on both sides, and a missing corner. Described as a Babylonian cuneiform, the label states: "Tablet containing lists of provisions, ch...
cuneiform tablet
c2500 BCE
A rectangular cuneiform tablet in pink clay with rounded sides and the bottom corner missing. This piece has been broken across the centre and repaired. The label describes it as "Babylonian tablet ...