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Total number of records: 3022

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Record typeCount
Coins2808
Textiles160
Objects41
Books and printed items12
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Coin Collection2805
International Textile Collection160
Quaker Collection8
Brotherton Collection2
English Literature2
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
society of friends4
quaker church buildings2
religious tolerance1
theology, doctrinal1
toilets1
poetry1
baptism1
baptists1
baths1
lord's supper1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome765
Alexandria, Egypt217
Antioch, Syria194
Egypt160
Berytus44
Antioch, Pisidia42
Marcianopolis41
Macedon38
Edessa, Mesopotamia34
Caesarea34

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Elagabalus98
Severus Alexander90
Gordian III82
Caracalla77
Trajan70
Philip I67
Antoninus Pius65
Hadrian64
Septimius Severus58
Alexander III of Macedon57

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From earliest1149
From 100675
From 2001074
From 30073
From 4007
From 5001
From 19001
From 200042

Count of Latest date

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Up to 991095
Up to 199634
Up to 2991293

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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Coin

Denomination: coins of Alexander the Great / Alexander I Balas

Date(s): c.336-145 BCE

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: Roman coins

Date(s): c.6-132

Material: copper


Coin

Denomination: coin of the Sassanid kingdom

Date(s): c.224-241 BCE

Material: copper


Archive Object Item

section of hieroglyphs

No date

A section of plaster with Egyptian Hieroglyphs, referenced as from Karnak, Ancient Thebes. Hieroglyphs include birds, and are set between lined borders. There is a semi-circle decoration on the lowe...

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Archive Object Item

cuneiform tablet (fragments)

No date

A cuneiform tablet completely broken into many small fragments of red clay.

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