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Total number of records: 1531

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Coins1527
Textiles3
Archives1

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Coin Collection1527
International Textile Collection3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome252
Alexandria, Egypt188
Antioch, Syria112
Antioch, Pisidia42
Marcianopolis41
Edessa, Mesopotamia34
Caesarea33
Viminacium23
Tyre23
Berytus20

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Elagabalus98
Severus Alexander90
Gordian III82
Caracalla77
Philip I67
Antoninus Pius65
Hadrian64
Septimius Severus58
Severus Alexander (Augustus)53
Valerian44

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From 200978
From 30014
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twenty nummi
Coin

Denomination: twenty nummi

Date(s): 540-541

Issuer/creator: Justinian I (527-65)

Place: Constantinople

Material: copper alloy

forty nummi
Coin

Denomination: forty nummi

Date(s): 557-558

Issuer/creator: Justinian I (527-65)

Place: Nicomedia

Material: copper alloy

follis
Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 312-10-313-05

Issuer/creator: Constantine I (306-37)

Place: London

Material: copper alloy

follis
Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 355 - 359

Issuer/creator: Constantius II (324-61)

Place: Lyons

Material: copper alloy

roundel
Textile

roundel

4th-5th Century

Coptic fragment with a purple wool tapestry-woven roundel inserted into a plain woven background. The fragment is made of linen, and is probably a knee roundel cut from a linen tunic. There is delicat...

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roundel
Textile

roundel

4th Century

Coptic hand woven linen textile with leaf/fan shaped motif. There is delicate interlace embroidery on the surface in dark blue wool. The motif appears to be surrounded by vine leaves, a common design....

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Coptic fragment
Textile

Coptic fragment

5th Century

There are nine Soumak woven and embroidered roundels in purple wool, arranged in a 3 x 3 pattern, some incomplete. Lions are depicted in two roundels, two possibly depict hunting dogs. The animals r...

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aureus
Coin

Denomination: aureus

Date(s): 125-28

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: gold

denarius
Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 134 - 138

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (Augustus)

Place: Rome

Material: silver alloy

didrachm
Coin

Denomination: didrachm

Date(s): c. 394-304 BCE

Place: Rhodes

Material: silver

tetradrachm
Coin

Denomination: tetradrachm

Date(s): 152 BCE - 151 BCE

Issuer/creator: Demetrius I Soter

Place: Antioch, Syria

Material: silver

tetradrachm
Coin

Denomination: tetradrachm

Date(s): 294 BC - 282 BC

Issuer/creator: Ptolemy I

Place: Alexandria, Egypt

Material: silver