Mummy-label or tablet in painted wood, showing a woman wearing socks and jewellery, sitting on a stool giving birth on one side and on the other, a man, possibly a doctor, seated in a high-back chair holding an instrument (possibly shears), excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c100-140 AD

Wodden mummy-label, inscribed with Greek characters "Sansnos, son of Pouoris and Smin" and Demotic "Sansnos son of Pouris": Ancient Egyptian, Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD100 - 300

Modern copy of a wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek characters "Apollonios the younger and Besa the elder, sons of their mother Thaminis; the one a priest, the other a merchant": Egypt, 19th Century, c. AD 1800-1900

Modern copy of a wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek characters "Pachoumis, son of Psenomesios and Senpachoumis, -”: Egypt, 19th Century, c. AD 1800-1900

Wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek "Petesis son of Hasies his mother (being) Tkauxis, from Bompae": Ancient Egyptian, Bompae, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c.AD 190-210

Wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek "Patmethis junior son of Petempetos sr. son of Horos son of Pelilis his mother (being) Terouteris": Ancient Egyptian, Psonis (Bassuna), Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 100-200

Wooden mummy-label inscribed on both sides in demotic (and some hieratic) characters, naming "Peteminis son of Zminis": Ancient Egyptian, Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 200-300

Fragment of 'In Memoriam' tablet of alabaster, sculptured with a seated female figure. Dedicated to Julia(?), a young daughter of Mascello (a horn blower) in Trajan's second legion. Nikopolis, Ancient Egyptian, Roman Period, c. AD213-395

Half part of a tablet of brown clay, bearing incised curvilinear patterns: Japan, Musashi province, Sugita excavation, Final Jomon, middle period

Sepulchral tablet representing a parti-coloured human mask woven in cotton and fastened to a foundation of culms, with human hair attached at sides: South America, probably Peru

Ivory memorandum tablet from a grey agate mounted necessaire with repousse and chased gold openwork: English, London, c. 1760

Zinc votive offering representing different scenes from the life of the Buddha including his birth and death, mounted on a wooden block: South Asia, India, possibly 18th century

White marble stele inscribed with an Athenian ephebic list commissioned by Attikos son of Philippos, with a pedimental top decorated with a carved urn: Greek, Athens, Roman period, c. AD 41-54

Tablet of baked clay inscribed recto and verso in cuneiform with a receipt for sheep delivered presumably to a temple: Mesopotamian, Sumerian, possibly from Ur, 7th year of Bur-Sin, c. 2000 BC

Tablet of baked clay inscribed in cuneiform with a list of sheep for various named people: Mesopotamian, Sumerian, 3rd Dynasty of Ur, 8th year of Amar-Sin, c. 2000 BC

Clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform text: Mesopotamian, Sumerian, 3rd Dynasty of Ur, c. 2000 - 1800 BC