19 cm tall resin

BLUE-GREEN EGYPTIAN USHABTI

26^th Dynasty, c. 660 BC

The front inscription identifies the owner as “Ankh-wah-ib-ra the smiter, commander of the army,… born of …(?)b.” The ushabti will do corvee duty, “cultivate the fields, water the riverbank” using the tools and basket he carries.  The back pillar text states the he is the “son of Psamtek, justified.”
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16.5 cm tall resin

OLIVE GREEN EGYPTIAN USHABTI

26^th Dynasty, c. 660 BC

The inscription identifies the owner as Psamtek-mer-ptah “overseer of the royal ships” under Pharoah Amasis of the 26^th dynasty. Ushabti figures were supposed to work for the tomb owner in the afterlife .
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c. 5-6 cm tall resin

BLUE FAIENCE EGYPTIAN USHABTIS

Late Period, Dynasties 21-31 c. 1069-332 B.C.

The ancient Egyptians put Ushabtis in their tombs as servants for the afterlife. Some carry hoes and other tools. They were manufactured by pressing faience into a mould. The fingerprints of the maker are often preserved on their backs. REPLICAS

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c. 6 cm high resin

EGYPTIAN HEART SCARAB

Ptolemaic Period c.333 - 42 B.C. Green basalt

The reverse is inscribed with a variant of spell 30b from the Book of the Dead: "My heart my mother,... of my coming into being….You are my ka within my body […....[May] lies not be spoken against me near the god...." REPLICA

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4.3 cm wide hydrostone

CUNEIFORM TABLET
AP B3

Sumerian (from Drehem, ancient Puzriš Dagan).
Dated 1st year of Šu-Sin, King of Ur 2037-2029 B.C.

An inventory of luxury shoes for the temple

“6 pairs of …. Linen and green/yellow leather boots, 17 pairs of …. boots, … The work of Lugula.
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Envelope. c. 4cm square hydrostone

CUNEIFORM TABLET CONTRACT & ENVELOPE
AP CE

Old Babylonian c. 1750 B.C.

SIN-USILI rents a plantation belonging to Enki-Lamazasu in the village of Hansi-PAL[....] from Ili-mahi in the presence of three witnesses (Mat-ilum, Aplum and Ili-hazir).
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2.7cm diam. by 2.8 cm high resin & hydrostone

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CYLINDER SEAL & IMPRESSION AP 5

Early Akkadian Mesopotamia

c.2350 B.C. Dark grey serpentine

Hero, bearded, wearing flat cap & kilt stands with arms round the necks of a pair of caprids protecting them from a pair of lions; at side a bare-headed naked hero holding one lion's tail and mane.
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c. 3.3 cm wide
hydrostone

CUNEIFORM TABLET AP SB

Schoolboy'sExercise Babylonia c. 600 B.C

Neo-Babylonian copy of Sumerian (c.2500 B.C.) tablet.

The numerals read: 1,2,3,4,5,6,9 (written as "10-1"), 10, 16. …"29" a "30"),30. Dated month good water, grain harvest cutting
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1.5 cm diam. 2.5 cm high resin & hydrostone

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CYLINDER SEAL & IMPRESSION AP 4

Sumerian (Mesopotamia)

Early dynastic II 2700 B.C.

Creamy Marble Contest scene of two sets of semi-rampant animals crossed - lion with bull and goat with sheep. At side semi-rampant stag with head reversed & raised foreleg; marked diagonal lines across bodies.
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2.2 cm diam. 2.8 cm high resin & hydrostone

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CYLINDER SEAL & IMPRESSION AP 27

Sumerian (Mesopotamia)

Jemdet Nasr to Early Dynastic I period c. 2900 B.C.

White Marble Brocade design of two antelopes(?) with fish & 'eye' motif.
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