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Total number of records: 4337

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	4104
Textiles	163
Objects	52
Books and printed items	12
Archives	6

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	4100
International Textile Collection	163
Quaker Collection	8
Brotherton Collection	3
English Literature	2
Cookery 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	923
Alexandria, Egypt	218
Antioch, Syria	194
Egypt	163
Trier	144
Constantinople	138
Arles	114
Sisak	113
Lyons	82
Antioch	80

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Constantine I (306-37)	203
Elagabalus	98
Severus Alexander	90
Gordian III	82
Caracalla	77
Constantius II (324-61)	73
Trajan	70
Philip I	67
Antoninus Pius	65
Constantine II (317-37)	64

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	1194
From 100	675
From 200	1078
From 300	907
From 400	97
From 500	201
From 600	113
From 700	15
From 1000	1
From 1100	1
From 1900	1
From 2000	44

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1095
Up to 199	634
Up to 299	1293
Up to 399	907
Up to 499	53
Up to 599	219
Up to 699	117
Up to 799	19

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.

Archive Item:
Leeds Papyrus 1

Papyrus Fragment

n.d.

Papyrus fragment labelled as 'BC Papyrus 1'. Unknown provenance and no accompanying information.

Archive Object Item:
Leeds Plaster Painting 1

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...

Archive Item:
Leeds Linen 1

Linen Fragment

n.d.

Framed linen fragment, backed with paper and inscribed on the back by E.B describing some of the provenance of the item.

Archive Object Item:
OBJ 1/21

cuneiform tablet

c. 1000 BCE

A cuneiform tablet, also described as a 'miniature brick book'. Described in a note as from Nebuchadnezzar's Library.

Coin:
OBJ 1/24

coins of Constantine the Great

c.306-337