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Region: Middle East

Text of a lecture given at Somerville College, 12 May 1949.  Paperback.  46 pages.  Minor signs of age, otherwise in good clean condition.  Cat No 5023

Region: Britain - Midlands

A report of important and extensive excavations in the grounds of the abbey establishing the true extent of the abbey foundations compared to the present-day truncated building.  Small finds are noted, including a medieval inscribed coffin lid.

Region: Italy

Marking the large donation of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities bequeathed to the Museum, this exhibition showcased a selection of some of Sir John’s finest artefacts, focussing predominantly on his collection of Attic black-figure and Attic red-figure vases which, as Professor of Classical A

Region: India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka

An intellectual thesis suggesting a strong link between the Indus scripts found on third millennium seals excavated at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa and the contemporaneous scripts of Mesopotamian Sumer with particular reference to the Indus numeral signs, and the signs for grain and silver, all of wh

Region: Greece

This book presents the first full stylistic study of the painter named after Guiseppe Micali (1769-1844), who recognized the hoard of vases discussed in this book as being the work of one man.

Region: Egypt

The story of Nefrekepta, the priest Setne and the Book of Thoth derived from a translation of the Demotic by Francis Griffith and renderd into verse by Gilbert Muarray with a coloured frontis by Florence Kingsford. Hardback. 48 pages on laid paper. Slight signs of wear to boards.