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  • Assyrian seal
  • Quarta impressio ornatissima: continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos ... Emittensque alios ejusdem libros nunquam cum aliis impressos / [Galen].
  • De atra bile, liber. De tumoribus praeter naturam, liber / Guinterio Joanne Andernaco interprete.
  • Babylonian prototype of the Madonna and child, Astarte. Possible votive offering from woman recovered from childbirth. Original in the British Museum.
  • Roman altar with Greek inscription found at Chester in 1851
  • Roman surgical instruments, Dr. Goldschmid correspondence
  • Roman bronze balance, excavated at Pompei.
  • Cylinder seal and sketch depicting Nergal, God of plague.
  • Roman surgical instruments (A-C) different hooks
  • Impression of a cylinder seal.
  • Two Aryballos,one showing figures and other floral designs
  • Scorpion symbol of goddess Ishkhara, circa 2400BC
  • Impression of a cylinder seal.
  • Case of Roman surgical instruments found in Germany
  • Assyro-Babylonian cylinder seals and sketches.
  • Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.
  • Suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health.
  • Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker.
  • Limestone head of a Babylonian demon.
  • Pre-Israelite ? dolmen in Palestine.
  • Sketch of decoration shown on Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker.
  • Goddess of Childbirth on cylinder seal, circa 1800-1500BC
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • A vase in the form of a seated figure; busts on each side
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Pottery funnel of red ware, Cyprus, c. 2000 B.C.
  • Roman artificial leg of bronze.