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A colour print illustration of the Shellal Mosaic, uncovered by Australian service personnel at Shellal near Gaza in April 1917. The illustration is by Spr Francis McFarlane (1888-1948) and was originally published at Cairo as a lithograph. The…

Old (1916?) envelope with L.16.013 A with contemporary note describing contents in pencil ( Piece of the top of the Sphinx ) and more recent blue pen description ( Piece of the top of the Sphinx Collected by J W Sinclair in c 1916).

Tissue with L.16.013 A with blue biro text.

Contemporary swing-tag with L.16.014 A (not attached) reading:  PO 5  2 Bronze figures found in the Island of Philae.

Facial tissue with blue biro text. With L.16.014 A

envelope on which is written:  Faience beads picked up in the sand Valley of the Tombs of the Kings 1916. Circa 1500 BC (pre  Tutankhamen) authenticated by British Museum. 3400 yrs old With L.16.019 A

With an envelope (post 1916) on which is written in dark ink:  Bes, probably after 1000 BC. The serpent strangler; Note long hair, bow legs, squat figure. The prototype of satyrs gorgons etc. God of childbirth and the female arts  spinning etc.…

tissue with a modern note recording the identification of the two cartouches. With L.16.029 A

Wrapped with a note in pencil on a scrap of lined paper reading:  petrified Rhinocerus hide from Siwa? In the Libyan Desert. With L.16.032 A

tissue reading:  beast waiting to devour unworthy souls at judgement and in a different ink  Anubis? . The identification in each case is not correct and the amulet is certainly a classic representation of taweret. With L.16.033 A