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Total number of records: 1095

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Coins924
Textiles160
Books and printed items11

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Coin Collection924
International Textile Collection160
Quaker Collection8
Brotherton Collection2
English Literature2
Herbert Read Collection1

Count of Subject

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

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome375
Egypt160
Antioch, Syria67
Alexandria, Egypt29
Fayum20
Judaea18
Sidon18
Berytus16
Lyons13
Apamea, Syria12

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Alexander III of Macedon57
Augustus53
Wang Mang, 7-23, of the Xin Dynasty40
Nero28
Claudius27
Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)25
Domitian24
Vespasian (69-79)19
Tiberius19
Iulius Caesar9

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Earliest dateCount
From earliest1094
From 19001

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: aureus

Date(s): 69 AD

Issuer/creator: Vitellius (69)

Place: Rome

Material: gold

mummy cloth
Textile

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...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 74 AD

Issuer/creator: Vespasian (69-79)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 74 AD

Issuer/creator: Vespasian (69-79)

Place: Rome

Material: silver