Time Measurement
1392
Wells Cathedral clock, England, 1392
Classical & Medieval Medicine
1401-1500 CE
Statuette of St. Rock, wood, northern Germany, 15th century
Clockmakers
1400-1499
Verge escapement weight driven wall clock by an unknown maker, Germany Iron frame of four corner uprights surmounted by four curved corner bars forming a canopy supporting a bell. The corner posts carry rosettes. The front has a pierced iron plate on which hour figures are painted. The striking mechanism operates without warning. The verge escapement has a bar foliot with adjustable weights.
Weighing & Measuring
1370-1350 BCE
Egyptian balance with scale pans, from Tel El-Amarna, Upper Egypt, c. bc 1370-1350
1340-1350 CE
Lead mortuary cross from victim of the Great Plague of 1348, English , 1340-1350
Lead mortuary cross from victim of the Great Plague of 1348, unsigned, English, 1340-1350.
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
300-1450 CE
Very worn, saucer-shaped Byzantine coin used as an amulet against smallpox, produced in Asia Minor, 300-1450
2000-1001 BCE
Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC
Mathematics
c. 1440
Sixteen exchequer tallies (stocks only)
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Gilt copy of gold burial mask of Agamemnon, Mycenaean original, Greek, 1900-1914
1493 - 1541
1493-1541, alchemist; physician; astrologer; general occultist, Swiss
1575-1194 BCE
Bronze kohl stick, Egyptian, 1575BC-1194BC
Lighting
1450-1500
Late 15th. century pierced sheet iron Candle lantern from Munich, 1911
Bronze hair curling tongs and trimmer, Egyptian, 1575BC-1194BC
1415-1380 BCE; 1922
Plaster cast of early Egyptian water clock or 'clepsydra' from original dating from between 1415-1380 BCE, reign of Amenhotep III, found at Karnak Temple in 1904. Original now in Cairo Museum. It was filled with water, which leaked out slowly indicating the passage of hours. The passage of hours differed according to the month and whether day or night.
1600-1400 BCE
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware, originally decorated with slip and having relief band round neck, from Cyprus, 1600-1400BC
Hand and Machine Tools
c. 1370 BCE
Bronze chisel, date about 1370 B.C. found at Tel El Amarna, Upper Egypt, in winter season of 1921-22
Astronomy
1425-1435
Small Hispano-Moorish planispheric astrolabe in brass gilt with four plates for the latitudes of 36, 39, 42 and 49 degrees and shadow dial and unequal scale on the reverse with vovelle, c. 1430, IC 247 [international checklist].
Mummified crocodile, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BCE.
Nursing & Hospital Furnishings
1401-1500
Chair from the Hotel Dieu in Paris, 15th century
1495-1497
Henry VII Exchequer "End" standard yard (octagonal, bronze bar)
"Base-Ring" juglet, for opium, made of earthenware, with handle and relief decoration, from Cyprus, 1600 BC - 1400 BC
1600-1300 BCE
Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory, Egyptian, 1600 BC to 1300 BC
Building Construction
1480-1485
Model of the Mediaeval barley barn at Temple Cressing, Essex, c. 1480, with wattle and daub walls, scale 9/16" to 1 ft
2000-1000 BCE
Unbaked clay figure of animal, one ear damaged, amuletic, unsigned, Egyptian, 2000BC-1000BC
2000-1350
Lid of alabaster kohl pot, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware, decorated with slip, and relief bands on neck, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
1550-1070 BCE
Bronze encrusted razor, 18th Dynasty, Egyptian, 1550 - 1070BCE
1575-1308 BCE
Steatite ointment spoon in form of a diving girl, Egyptian, 1575BC to 1308BC
Agricultural Engineering
1500 BC
Bronze hoe, from Tel El Amarna, Upper Egypt, c. 1500 BC
1301-1500 CE
Latten spoon, cone knop, 14th or 15th century
Textiles Machinery
1400-1500
Coptic textile quilted blanket of linen with motifs (blue, red and brown dancers), with blue/brown borders and remains of fringe, badly stained
Dentistry
Ivory combined toothpick and earspoon, said to be Italian, 15th century
c. 1350 BCE
One of three Ancient Egyptian "Frog" weights, late 18th dynasty c.B.C. 1350, small in glazed soapstone (steatite) with an Egyptian hieroglyph in green glaze worked on the base, wt. = 11. 66 grains.
"Base-Ring" juglet with handle and lip, earthenware, decorated with relief bands, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
1470-1500 CE
Statue of Saint Antonino of Florence, earthenware, ? Italian, late 15th century
1388-1360 BCE
Plaster copy of bust of Nefertiti, original Egyptian, 18th dynasty, c.1383-1365BC
Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma, showing his withered right leg, plaster copy of Egyptian original, 2000-1001BC. Made in Dantes Plad in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC
Latten spoon with cone knop, 14th or 15th century
One of three Ancient Egyptian "Frog" weights, late 18th dynasty c.B.C. 1350, larger in green feldspar wt., 112.21 grains.
2000-1350 BCE
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
"Base Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware with black slip decoration and relief band round neck, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1400 BC
1497
Bronze Exchequer Standard Winchester Gallon Measure, one of a series issued to 60 cities in England during the reign of Henry VII between 1497 and 1509.
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, possibly New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Anatomy & Pathology
c. 1350
Vertibrae (spine) consisting of 24 pieces including C1-C7 (cervical) , T1- T12 (thoracic) and L1-L5 (lumbar) from a mature female skeleton showing the effects of leprosy, from a medieval Danish leprosy cemetery, reputedly c.1350
1001-1400 CE
Cupping glass, Islamic, 1001-1400, provenance unknown
500-1450
Toilet flask, animal bone, cotton bound, black hair stopper, pre-Columbian, from Ica, Peruvian, 500-1450
Glass Technology
Disc of blue frit, from Tel el Amarna, Upper Egypt, c. 1500 BC
Asian Medicine
1500 -1000 BCE
Village 'Naga' shrine, carved stone, perhaps Indian, 1500 -1000 BCE
