• EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

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2nd century BCE-1st century BCE

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Making sense of nonsense: pseudo-script on an Italian Renaissance maiolica dish

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Blue: Alchemy of a Colour

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Relics of Another Age: Art History, the ‘Decorative Arts’ and the Museum

Dropping a Han Dynasty urn AI Weiwei Pelike (Gnathian ware) SOUTH ITALY Cheek piece from a horse bit IRAN, Luristan Jug SYRIA Titlepage Wenceslaus HOLLAR Lekythos (Attic black figure ware) GREECE, Athens Clifton House Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman) Amulet of Isis EGYPT Figure of Isis suckling Horus the Child EGYPT Aryballos (Etrusco-Corinthian ware) ITALY Dropper flask SYRIA Plate (Italian black-glaze ware) ITALY String of beads EGYPT Bracelet SYRIA Clay tablet IRAQ Lekythos (Gnathia ware) SOUTH ITALY Aryballos (Etrusco-Corinthian ware) ITALY, Etruria Head of Septimius Severus ITALY Jar (wavy-handled ware) EGYPT, Diospolis Parva Squat lekythos (Gnathia ware) ITALY, Gnathia Oinochoe (Attic red-figure ware) GREECE, Attica Comb EGYPT, Diospolis Parva Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Foundation cone IRAQ, Ur Lid of pyxis (South Italian red-figure ware) ITALY, Apulia Small jar EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware) GREECE, Corinth Fragment of a door jamb EGYPT Aryballos ITALY, Etruria Ushabti figure EGYPT