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  • Collection: Museum of Classical Antiquities Artefacts

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Bronze spearhead with a long socket. There is a round hole near the end of the socket, likely original.

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A bilobate bronze arrowhead. Leaf shaped tip.

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Iron shortsword. Seems to be made entirely of iron, both blade and handle. Small V-shaped cross guard. Butt of the handle is roughly oval shaped and extends further out than the handle.

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Leaf shaped javelin point bearing a Greek inscription. Short tang.

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Bronze arrowhead with a triangular blade and long shaft.

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Bicone shaped lead sling bullets. One end of each is rounded, and one has an inscription.

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Bronze arrowhead with two barbs/spurs on the end facing away from the arrow tip, which has been broken off. Round base with a socket.

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Terracotta tablet with cuneiform impressed on both sides. Inscription has not been translated.

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Terracotta tablet with cuneiform impressed on both sides. Inscription has not been translated.

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A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Black in colour with brown spots due to wear.

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A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

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Terracotta tablet with cuneiform impressed on both sides. Inscription has not been translated.

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Cylinder of bone or ivory that tapers off at one end, which ends with an egg shape. Pointed at the opposite end for the purposes of writing.

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Rectangular Papyrus from Roman Egypt with Greek script, written in the 13th year of Trajan (109-110 CE). Contains 37-38 lines of text written in Greek. Document is probably an application for a lease.

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Rectangular papyrus from Roman Egypt with Hieratic text. The exact date in unknown however the Hieratic script stopped being used in the 3rd century CE. It is safe to assume that the Papyrus is not more recent than that date. The papyrus contains 2…

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Terracotta tablet with cuneiform impressed on both sides. Inscription has not been translated.

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Two wood tablets, joined by a string, with a wax writing surface and a metal stylus

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Rhys Tushingham: Ceramic disc with engraved symbols in a spiral pattern, made to replicate the Phaistos disc exhibited at the Heraklion museum (https://www.heraklionmuseum.gr/en/collections/#collections, accession number Π-Ν1358). Unlike the…

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A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Slightly greenish-beige in colour.

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A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

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A fragment of papyrus mounted in a paper frame.

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Black base with metal stand holding up a limestone monolith that contains an inscription and a large symbol at the precipice. The stone is trapezoidal in shape.

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A small clay cylinder with a hollow middle for attachment to a necklace or bracelet. Engraved with a design along the surface for the purposes of rolling onto fresh clay in order to create a seal. Light blue in colour, with a deeper blue present in…

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Rectangular shape, Latin inscription, decorated with leafy border along top edge and large "X" carved in relief on left side. Three holes for mounting. Orange/brown spots near two of the holes. Broken diagonally along right edge. Mounted in black…

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Gnathian oinochoe with trefoil mouth. Inconsistent colouration and imperfect decoration as a result of misfiring. The original scheme of decoration is visible in silhouette form: it includes a painted ogive pattern at the neck, below which is a key…
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