This limestone base of an offering table belonging to Paneb, Chief Workman at Deir el-Medina. The stand was probably set up in one of the small privat (cont.)

W5308 is a small decorated ovoid Marl clay pottery jar with a flat base, ledge rim, and two cylindrical pierced handles on the shoulder. The exterior (cont.)

These daisy pattern faience inlays would have been placed amongst plainer tiles to give a more decorative effect. Tiles such as this commonly date to (cont.)

A broad collar dating to the Amarna Period with a central amulet of Beset. Beset was the female version of the household god Bes. They were protectors (cont.)

This miniature book consists of a hinged metal cover containing thirteen pages held in place by the metal spine. The book cover has been embossed with (cont.)

W967 is a parchment scroll, comprising the Book of Esther from the Old Testament. The scroll is decorated with a triple crown of ivory, which dates to (cont.)

W952 is a marble brick dating to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar was an important figure in Jewish history, responsibl (cont.)

Faience bell in the shape of the head of Bes. It is made of pale green faience, in the shape of a hollow hemispherical Bes-head crowned with feathers, (cont.)

W946 dates to the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus, commissioned to honour the death of the mother of a sacred Buchis bull, which was buried in the (cont.)

This bracelet was found in the undisturbed grave of a wealthy female at Qau el-Kebir in 1923. According to the excavation report, it was one of three (cont.)

This string of carnelian beads dates to the Middle Kingdom. The beads have been restrung in modern times and it is not known if all of them were origi (cont.)

W769 is a flat, paddle shaped, wooden figure, a type of object that Egyptologists refer to as ‘paddle dolls’. The rear of the figure contains the repr (cont.)

W1376 is an irregularly shaped limestone fragment. The front of the fragment contains the head of a figure. The iconography clearly indicates that the (cont.)

This axe has a copper alloy, crescent-shaped blade attached by rivets to a bronze case socket for the shaft. The cylindrical case socket originally en (cont.)

A limestone block statue of the priest Aba (or Iba). Aba is represented sitting on a plinth with his crossed arms resting on his drawn-up knees. He we (cont.)