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Total number of records: 1729

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	1556
Textiles	160
Books and printed items	12
Archives	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	1554
International Textile Collection	160
Quaker Collection	8
English Literature	2
Brotherton Collection	2
Herbert Read Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
society of friends	4
quaker church buildings	2
religious tolerance	1
theology, doctrinal	1
toilets	1
poetry	1
baptism	1
baptists	1
baths	1
lord's supper	1

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Rome	529
Egypt	160
Antioch, Syria	119
Alexandria, Egypt	73
Berytus	34
Sidon	23
Fayum	20
Judaea	18
Athens	17
Macedon	17

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Trajan	70
Antoninus Pius	65
Hadrian	63
Alexander III of Macedon	57
Augustus	55
Wang Mang, 7-23, of the Xin Dynasty	40
Antoninus Pius (138-61)	37
Commodus	36
Trajan (98-117)	35
Marcus Aurelius	32

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	1143
From 100	529
From 200	29
From 300	25
From 500	1
From 1900	1
From 2000	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1095
Up to 199	634

Archive Print Item:
Large English Q-1 OBR

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

O'Brien, Cynthia; Rice, John

[1971/4]

Archive Print Item:
Birkbeck Library 55.1

The common salvation contended for, and the faith which was once delivered to the saints. Or, An answer to a book called, A plain answer to eighteen queries of John Whitehead, put forth by William Kays... The queries laid down, and the substance of his answer, with a reply to his answer

Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)

[1659/60]

Indexed in: Wing H3155; Smith I, 992.

Coin:
CC.1

aureus

2 BCE - AD 4

Laureate bust of Augustus facing right with legend around, CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE

Textile:
ITC 2000.9.1

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...

Textile:
ITC 2009.218.1

cloth fragment

c. 3900 BCE

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

Textile:
ITC 2009.217.1

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 ...

Textile:
ITC 2009.219.1

cloth fragment

c. 766 BCE

Cloth fragment from the cemetery at Tarkhan excavated by Petrie.

Coin:
OBJ 1/25

coins of Alexander the Great / Alexander I Balas

c.336-145 BCE

Coin:
OBJ 1/31

Roman coins

c.6-132

Coin:
CC.10

aureus

69 AD

Vitellius bare head facing right with legend around A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP TR P

Textile:
ITC 2000.9.10

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in th...

Coin:
CC.100

denarius

74 AD

Vespasian, laureate head facing right; around, IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG.