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3D model of a backgammon piece. A few gaming pieces were found at the excavation, including chess pieces, dice and this wooden backgammon piece. Gaming objects are frequently found in archaeological excavations at cloisters abroad. The finds here show tha…

3D model of a die made from stone, measuring 1 cm per side. Physical object held at the National Museum of Iceland nr: 2006-36-0619. Found 11/07/2006 by AHP https://sarpur.is/Adfang.aspx?AdfangID=16648 Part of the Skriðuklaustur Monastery 1550 reconstruct…

A small ivory carving of a man seated on a narrow bench draped in fabric. The seat is rectangular with a rounded top and partial low straight back. Fabric is draped in folds over the front of the bench and hangs straight down the back. The man is seated w…

3D model of a small knife with a dull point and a handle made of bone or horn. The handle has 3 pins on it. The blade measures 5,5 cm and the handle measures 6,5 cm. Physical object at the National Museum of Iceland nr:: 2003-36-148. Found 16/ 7/ 2003 by …

3D model of a flask made by a cooper at the end of his apprenticeship. He used the same woodworking skills that were required to make herring barrels. Twelve wooden staves were used to make the flask and six brass rings around the outside were used to hol…

3D model of a wooden arrow shaft with a copper-alloy arrowhead. The original object was found at the Skriðuklaustur monastery. Physical object held at the National Museum of Iceland nr: 2011-36-1068 https://sarpur.is/Adfang.aspx?AdfangID=783279 Part of th…

3D model of an ink bottle in Timespan's collection. A collaborative project between Open Virtual Worlds, a research team within the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews and Timespan. 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Ia…

3D model of a metal curry comb on a wooden turned handle with decorative bending and a metal loop at the top. The flared arms attached to the surface of the comb has fine teeth at one edge and coarser teeth at the other end. Added to Timespan's collec…

3D model of general-purpose scales made by Salter Housewares Ltd. Original object dated late 19th century. Physical object held at the Timespan Museum. Part of the Helmsdale Fishing Village reconstruction.

A corpus in bronze with the feet apart and resting on a rectangular suppedaneum. The loin-cloth is long, knotted on the right and arranged in broad folds with a V-shaped fold in the front. The head is inclined down and to the right with the eyes closed. D…

A Limoges chasse or reliquary in enamelled bronze. The front is decorated with a scene showing the murder of St Martial who was one of the patron saints of Limoges, and the ends with figures of saints standing between roundels. Both the back of the chasse…

This crozier head is carved in relief with inhabited foliated scrolls, mainly animals and birds, on the upright. The volute has three dimensional scenes, carved within it, on either side. One side shows two standing figures and one seated figure with the …

A wooden shabti of the Nineteenth Dynasty; New Kingdom of Egypt. It is painted white with details in red, black and yellow, for Ramose and is 18.7cm tall. It was given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1921. Two inscriptions are present: sHD wsir sS nsw ra…

A parian marble bust of Livia discovered in Carthage. Dating to 58 B.C. - 29 B.C. Dimension(s): depth, 0.23, m; height, 0.34, m; width, 0.195, m Acquisition: given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1978 by Peter F King MBE

Limestone male figurine ([GR.239.1888] with mantle and inscription found in Amargetti Cyprus, dating from 300 B.C. — 201 B.C. The statue is schematically-carved with an important dedicatory inscription engraved at the back referring to a dedication on beh…

A marble copy of Greek original statue of Dionysus from the gymnasium of Salamis, Cyprus. Dating to the 2nd Century AD. Dimensions: height, 1.04, m Given to the Fitzwilliam museum in 1891. Object Number: GR.2.1891 (Antiquities) http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.…

False door of Hemi-ra from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection. This false door dates to 2170 B.C. — 2025 B.C. 7th-10th dynasties; Seventh Dynasty; Tenth Dynasty; First Intermediate period. This false door depicts a priestess of Hathor seated before offe…

Early Roman marble head of Plato. Height, 0.355, m Acquisition: given in 1850 by Dr John Disney Object Number: GR.23.1850 (Antiquities)

A marble head of Faustina the Younger from the 2nd Century AD. Dimension(s): height, 0.32, m. width, 0.19, m, approx, depth, 0.19, m, approx Given to the museum in 1850 by Dr John Disney Documentation: Michaelis, Adolf. 1882. Ancient marbles in Great Br…

An early 19th Century incense burner (one of a pair) from China. Cloisonne enamel. Given by J McLean O.JA-1973

A marble statuette of Alexander the Great from Mansha, el- (Ptolemais Hermiou) Egypt. Dating to circa 100 B.C. (Ptolemaic; Hellenistic) Height, 0.59, m Acquisition: bought; 1970

This wheel-thrown fritware jug with ‘sealing-wax’ red hyacinths and cobalt blue pomegranates was made in Iznik (Western Anatolia), a renowned ceramics centre during the Ottoman Empire. It’s characteristic of late sixteenth-century production: the bright r…

Late Minoan & Bronze Age double axe from Crete. Dating to 1600 to 1100 BC. Bronze. Dimension(s): length, 0.22, m width, 0.075, m depth, 0.03, m Acquisition: given to the FM in 1901 by RC Bosanquet Object Number: GR.2a.1901

A marble statuette depicting Serapis, 1st Century AD. Found in Eleusis.Height, 0.41, m Acquisition: bought in 1907 from CA Lembessis Object Number: GR.87.1907 (Antiquities)