Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Compound microscope

1700

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Medal, silver, commemorating the restoration of the Athenium of Letters at Lyons

1700

Bronze medal of the University of Paris

1699

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

1701

Arithmetical instrument known as a Rotula

1699

Guinea coin of William III

1701

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Engraving "Der Serffensieder" (soapboiler)

1698

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Italian albarello vase

1700

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Alabaster bottle

2000-1350

Alabaster bottle

1850-1350

Large bronze mortar

1700

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Amuletic pendant

100 BCE -1700

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE