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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

Scrap of lined paper on which is written in black ink:  Brought from Abydos 1? hour by motor from Balinana Stn abt 5 or 6th Dynasty. Found in Tomb sacred Talab or fox. No known association with other Sinclair Collection Pieces

A very worn Sestertius of Hadrian. Obverse: Bust of Hadrian, laureate, right. Inscription obliterated but probably read "HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS" with or without "PP" based on the type. Reverse: Fortuna, draped, seated left on throne, holding rudder on…

Two soldiers stand in the grounds of the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria, Egypt, surrounded by ancient scultpure and sarcophagi.

A group of nine soldiers sit on top of the roof of a building, perhaps a temple.