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Casket Casket

Casket of silver, engraved "Sacred to the memory of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots", containing what is said to be a lock of her hair, by D. Simpson or Daniel Sutherland, Glasgow, Scotland, early 19th century AD

Mummified person Mummified person

Mummified adult male with wrappings arranged in lozenges, and a portrait-board fitted over the face, the feet have a cartonnage case with gilded gold toes, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Hawara, c. AD 80 - 120

Mummified person Mummified person

Mummified girl aged five to seven years, depicted as an adult, with wrappings arranged in lozenges and a gilded plaster mask fitted over the face, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 100-140

Dried fruit / doum palm Dried fruit / doum palm

Dried fruit of the dom palm, said to be from a tomb: Ancient Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, c. 1550 - 1069 BC

Mummified animal Mummified animal

Mummified ibis bird (Threskiornis aethiopicus), in linen wrappings, with a representation of the god Thoth as a baboon wearing a sun disc in embroidered linen on the surface: Ancient Egyptian, possibly Saqqara, Late Period, 27th to 31st Dynasty, c. 521 - 332 BC

Mummified animal Mummified animal

Small mummified crocodile (crocodylus niloticus), wrapped in dyed and painted linen, woven over the animal's back: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, probably Roman Period, c. 30 BC - AD 395

Mummified person Mummified person

Mummified woman named as the lady Paast, wrapped in linen with a painted cartonnage mask over the face and remains of garlands on the body: Ancient Egyptian, probably Upper Egypt, Thebes, Ptolemaic Period, 323 - 30 BC

Mummified person Mummified person

Mummified remains of an adult man wrapped in linen, partially disarticulated, with the head covered with a painted cartonnage mask: Ancient Egyptian, probably from Akhmim, Late Period, 30th Dynasty, c. 380 - 342 BC

Mummified person Mummified person

Mummified woman, wrapped in linen bandages coated with a thick layer of black resin embedded with stone, opaque glass and gilded amulets: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind in the tomb of Montsuef, Early Roman Period, c. 20 BC - 10 AD

Vinaigrette Vinaigrette

Small silver and agate vinaigrette, containing a sponge, inside a red leather box, containing letter, James Naysmith, Edinburgh, 1834

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