Byzantine coin of Alexius I, 1081-1118. Obverse: Christ, enthroned. Reverse: bust of Alexius I, facing front; he wears a jewelled chlamys; to left, he holds a cruciform sceptre; to right, he holds a globus cruciger; to left, inscription says ‘Λ’.
Byzantine coin of John II, 1118-1143. Obverse: Christ, standing on a footstool and facing front; he has a nimbus cruciger around his head, which is a cross within a halo; he raises his right hand in benediction; in his left hand, he holds the Book of Gospels; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to ri...
Byzantine coin of Manuel I, 1143-1180. Obverse: large cross resting on two steps; at centre of cross, there is an ‘X’; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to right, ‘[XC]’. Reverse: bust of Manuel I, facing front; he wears a loros, an embroidered and jewelled scarf; to left, he holds a labarum, which...
Byzantine coin of Manuel I, 1143-1180. Obverse: large cross resting on two steps; at centre of cross, there is an ‘X’; to left, inscription says ‘IC’; to right, ‘XC’. Reverse: bust of Manuel I, facing front; to left, he holds a labarum, which is a military standard. The inscription on the obverse...
Small, diamond shaped, biface point made of shiny, black stone. Point has flake scarring on either side.
Long beaded fragment (part a) on fibre strand consisting predominantly of white beads and interspersed with red and blue beads. Fragments of brown-orange gourd fruit from largest to smallest (part b, c, d, e, f, and g).
Pair of plain, round, tin metal earrings with metal hoops attached at tops and covered with material. Part a has leather covering the hoop, and part b has brown-yellow rubber covering the hoop. The small groove in each earring is filled with dirt in some areas.
Metal double-barbed point (part a) with rough metal shaft (part b), fitted and sinew-wrapped in socket of shaped wooden section. This is inserted into a reed section, sinew-wrapped and glued with pitch. Intermittent wrappings of sinew continue down length of shaft. The end of the reed is notched.
Metal double-barbed point (part a) with a bark-covered fore-shaft, fitted into a sinew-wrapped reed (part b). The arrow is a series of reed and wood fitted together and glued with black pitch. The reed sections have further pitch-blackened sinew wrapping at the centre, end, and near the bark fore...
Many rows of Chinese characters written on very thin, off-white paper.