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Scarab, terracotta/faience, modern. Large, green grey surface over a pale buff core, visible on reverse. Surface somewhat mottled. Not pierced. Reverse has 4x cartouches forming two royal names: Thutmose III and Ramses II. Famous pharoahs are…

Bracelet, Bronze, Egyptian Roman or later. Two strands of thick wire, bent in half and then twisted on each other to form a crude bracelet. Very corroded with active bronze disease. Attached is a contemporary (1916) tag reading:  No 4: Old…

Bracelet, Bronze, Egyptian Roman or later. Thick flat band in a rough oval, flattened towards the join with a zigzag terminal. Very corroded with active bronze disease. Label on L.16.030 appears to also refer to this piece.

Animal Remains, Rhinocerus hide, unknown date. Roughly square with texture on one side and fairly smooth on the other. Semi-gloss dark brown. Accompanied by a scrap of lined paper with explanatory text (L.16.032 B)

Figurine, terracotta? Egyptian? Unknown date. Figure of Taweret, standing and holding belly. On reverse in pencil  Anubis . Buff clay with green grey slip. Accompanied by a tissue with explanatory text: L.16.033 B

Coffin Fragment, Wood with gesso and pigment, Egyptian 19-21 Dynasty. Wooden hand from an anthropoid coffin, typical of the ramesside period with yellow pigment and arms crossed over the chest. Here the hand is shown to be attached separately by…

Shabti, terracotta, modern, dark grey shabti in coarse terracotta with hands folded over chest and cartouche of Thutmose III above. This famous type of replica shabti is produced widely in Egypt during the 19th and 20th centuries for the tourist…

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.