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Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins and Casts : Exhibition Guide
During partial demolition and remodelling of several galleries the Museum closed a large portion and, as compensation to its many visitors, staged a special exhibition which brought together, in one location, 200 of its greatest treasures. This exhibition guide describes and illustrates all of them including - the Alfred Jewel, a Medieval Caricature Chimney Pot; a Thomas Toft Dish; an Alexander the Great Coin; a Fayum Mummy Portrait; Linear B tablets; an Assyrian Relief, a Nobel Prize Medal; the Cuerdal Viking Hoard; a Palaeolithic Acheulian Handaxe; an Etruscan Statuette; the Wittenham Iron Age Sword; a C14th Glass Mosque Lamp; a C14th Pilgrim Badge; a Medieval Reliquary Ring; a Sumerian Temple Figurine; St Thomas Becket Reliquary Casket; and a C5th Head of Shiva. Paperback. 80 pages. Small crease to front cover corner, otherwise in good clean condition. Cat No N215
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