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A Roman lamp, purchased from the sale room of the Cairo Museum in 1915 by George Herbert Bourne. This artefact was sent home to Australia in March 1915 but its current whereabouts is unknown. In his "What to Know in Egypt: A Guide for Australasian…

A fragment of Roman tile or brick, roughly diamond shaped, with a sticker on one face, identifying it as "Roman Tile from City of Verulam" in black ink, and "100 AD" in blue biro. The sticker appears to be the selvedge of a sheet of stamps, possibly…

A fragment of Roman brick, roughly triangular in profile, with a sticker on the largest face identifying it as "Roman Brick" from "St Albans" in blue biro. The outer surfaces of the fragment are a deep orange in colour while the internal colour is a…

A Fake Egyptian terracotta figurine of Isis and Horus. The surface of the figure is a mottled black/brown with flecks of green. Some areas are damaged and show the pale pink terracotta beneath, including the nose and knee of Isis, the forehead and…

A large grey terracotta scarab with the cartouche of Ramses II on the underside. The left cartouche is damaged by scratches, while the right cartouche is worn, but easily identified. Three large chips are missing from the edge of the scarab above the…

A Fatimid sphero-conical vessel with a dark brown to purple slip, worn in many places on the body to show a yellow fabric. The rim is thick and inverted, on top of a thinner neck. The mouth has only a small opening. The main body of the vessel is…

A carinated bowl with a rounded base, probably late Roman in date. The surface of the vessel is a red-rown colour with small limestone inclusions. The rim is rounded over the neck. The vessel has been roughly finished with incised horizonal lines…

Two joining neck fragments of a Fatimid buff-white ware water vessel with incised filter. The fabric is characteristically buff with a white/cream slip over the surface. The broken neck flares outwards towards the top and is well preserved on only…

A Fatimid sphero-conical vessel with a dark brown slip. The neck is broken, showing a sandy coloured fabric around the shoulder. The main body of the vessel is an ovoid, tapering to a rounded point at the base. Immediately below the undecorated…

A Fatimid Islamic oil lamp with a pale green glaze. The lip is flared and tapers to the base of the neck. Over half of the lip is missing, showing a buff to cream fabric. There is a torus at the join with the body. The body is shaped like an oblate…