Bronze. Passing lion in the round on the back of the socket.Legrain publication: "Bronze adze, with a remarkable long socket adorned more than reinforced by a lion passant in the round."
CBS Register: Alabaster vase, excellently preserved. Persian period. 280 mm high. 2 ears [with sketch of rim, lip, and handle]. Continued nos. 4086-4314
Alabaster slab with reliefs. The decoration is made of ten antelopes' heads (or bulls' heads? Bukranion), four of which are broken or burnt, between two tower-like constructions. The con-structions are of the typical South Arabian style; a door in a recess, and a window above a straight lintel.
Blue glazed. 2 handles, pointed base, groove on and at base of elongated neck, rolled rim.CBS Register: no field number. clay amphora. with sketch. blue glaze.
Dark green glass. Pointed base, Funnel-shaped body, inward sloping shoulders, slender cylindrical neck with applied ring at middle; wide uneven folded/flanged rim.
UE IV: calf's head, carved in dark steatite; the neck is pierced horizontally for attachment, the eyes followed for inlay and there is a hole for inlay in the forehead; good archaic work
Round leather amulet with stitched design on front and 3 colored cotton thread balls attached at 3 points. 4th point has leather loop attached with green cotton thread through it and tied at ends. Amulet has yellow front and red back with I.D. "24/S" on back.
round box, hinged top, two movable cut-out pieces near top fastened to side. possibly intended for suspension. boss on lid has rings of metal possibly for for jewelery settings. top, sides and back covered with filagree of flowers, planets and birds.Sommerville 29-221 no number: "A round box of pierced brass over cloth. Stones lost from high setting"
Small frit duck or goose with oval body, relatively long curving neck, flattened on sides. Flat base, body pierced through horizontally from side to side to side.
Flat, green. writing on both sides, arabic on front, arabic and proto-arabic on back. Talismanic square on front, Koran on reverse.Sommerville Cat. 1501: "Jade. Very elaborate Persian talisman with a square of mystic numbers, which rendered in our numerals read thus: 1279 1283 1280 12721285 1273 1278 12841274 1288 1281 12771282 1286 1270 1287Surrounded on three sides of this square are talismanic inscriptions. They are religious. Reverse, a beautiful inscription of a long verse from the Koran."
Small, rectangular, inscriptions on both sides, possibly Cufic? Physician's pocket amulet. Small rectangular piece with unidentified inscriptions on both sides.Sommerville Cat. 1504: "Brown hematite. Also a physician's pocket talisman."Sommerville Lists: small glass Mohammedan taliman.
Turtle molded of frit. Head, feet and tail extended from body. Shell covered with squares on back and stomach. Pierced from side to side at neck. No evidence of having been glazed.
Oblong rectangular talisman with black silk cord. Engraved on both sides. front with various arabic inscriptions and magic squares. multi-headed human figure in center. central deity with 17 faces and body covered with inscription; surrounding border of Moslem prayers. back mostly filled with arabic words. 256 small squares with Persian characters, bordered by prayers to Allah. loops on sides hold black swords.
Rectangular piece with trimmed/cut corners. Five lines of Hebrew script plus border of Hebrew script. Has two small attached rings on back through which white cord runs.
Rectangular pendant with hebrew script. back had two loops, with yellow cord strung through them. Persian talisman with oblong yellow cord. Curious inscriptions around the margin and in central square are written in Hebrew but in some way disguise a Persian meaning.
CBS Register: demon's head. Green glazed pottery bead. 9 mm long. Neo-Bab - Persian. Pierced 2 holes broad wise.spacer bead? Not a demon head but rather a crouching frog?
Pendant carved of pink, fine-grained stone. Two fish, joined at their stomachs. Smooth with gills, fins, stomach line incised. Eyes drilled out. Carved loop at the heads, pierced horizontally for suspension, Part of tails broken away.
