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Plaster replica of a Greek statue of Asklepios (Asclepius; Latin: Aesculapius), Greek god of medicine, original found at Epidaurus, probably 5th century BC, cast 1860-1920

Plaster replica of a Greek statue of Asklepios

1860-1920; 500-401 BCE

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of Amenhotep, son of Hapu director of building at Thebes

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of Amenhotep

2000-500 BCE

Plaster replica of a Greek sculptured relief, depicting Asklepios (Asclepius; Latin: Aesculapius), his wife and a horseman, original from Epidaurus of 4th century BC, cast 1860-1920

Plaster replica of a Greek sculptured relief

1860-1920; 400-301 BCE

Plaster replica of a Greek relief, showing Asklepios (Asclepius; Latin: Aesculapius) seated on a throne, original is work of Thrasymedes of Paros, around 460 BC, cast 1860-1920

Plaster replica of a Greek relief, throned Asklepios

1860-1920; circa 460 BCE

Stone herm or pillar, in form of a satyr, with a serpent entwined around lower half, was set up on Nadside to protect bracelet from evil, found on site of Forum of Augustus, Rome, 23BC-14

Stone herm or pillar

23-14

Excavated portion of neolithic cranium, showing shanks of bone disease, French, 3500-2001BC

Excavated portion of neolithic cranium

3500-2001 BCE

Copy of Lavoisier's calorimeter of 1780. The original was exhibited in the loan collection of scientific apparatus, 1876. Model made by the South Kensington Museum workshops, 1877.

Replica of Lavoisier's Calorimeter

circa 1780 (original); 1876 (replica)

Contemporary dockyard structural model, scale 1:60 (unrigged), of the lower part (keel to just above waterline) of the hull, of a 1st-Rate 100-guns, of George I reign, by Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich, London, England, 1714-1727, and restored by Frederick Charles Ihlee, Paston Hall, near Perborough, England, 1933-1938

Structural model of the lower part of the hull of First Rate warship of George I reign

1714-1727; 1933-1938

model, scale 1:10, European Communication Satellite, serial number 0066.

Model, scale 1:10, European Communication Satellite

1970-80

Copy of a pair of large Magdeburg hemispheres used by Otto von Guericke. The originals were exhibited in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus of 1876

Copies of large Magdeburg hemispheres

1660 (original); 1876 (copy)

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

3000-1900 BCE

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife

4000-1000 BCE

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole, 3500-2001BC

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole

3500-2001 BCE

Glass bottle with cork stopper, contains bone and charcoal, reputedlyfound at a lake dwelling near Kilmarnock in Scotland, bottle English, 1878-1940

Glass bottle with cork stopper

5000-1800

Glass bottle, contains carbonised wheat from Bredon Hill, Worcestershire, collected by Mr Wheeler Smith

Glass bottle

5000-1800

Part of skull showing depressed fracture, prehistoric cemetery, Gebel Moya. From a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Skull from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE

2 pieces of metatarsal bone, showing extosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE

Model railway wagon, `O' gauge, LNWR cattle with drover's compartment, No.72324, built by M.C. Hart, c.1960

London & North Western Railway cattle with drover's compartment,

1955-195