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  • Assyro-Babylonian cylinder seals and sketches.
  • Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.
  • Suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health.
  • Ancient Canaanite Teraphim. Figurines of fertility goddess.
  • Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker.
  • Limestone head of a Babylonian demon.
  • Votive bust of Aesculapius.
  • Cylinder seal and sketch depicting Nergal, God of plague.
  • Plaques of the Sumerian grain goddess Ninsaba, circa 2000BC
  • Hittite and Egyptian types of Astarte plaques and figurines deposited in Palestinian houses to ensure health and prosperity.
  • Ivory seal with incising to give required impression.
  • Votive bust of Aesculapius.
  • Statue of Nabu (Hebraice Nebo) The Hermes of the Babylonian pantheon, the storm god Adad or Ramman.
  • Impression of a cylinder seal.
  • Marble votive plaque with relief bust, possibly Serapis.
  • Sumerian seal of Ad-da showing sunrise, circa 2500BC.
  • Pre-Israelite ? dolmen in Palestine.
  • Scorpion symbol of goddess Ishkhara, circa 2400BC
  • Roman and Greek bronze spatulae some with probe-ends
  • Impression o cylinder seal of the physicians Ur-lugal-Edinna.
  • Fragments of teraphim ? plaques.
  • Assyrian seal
  • Impression of a cylinder seal.
  • Sketch of decoration shown on Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker.
  • Probes (2), forceps, bronze double ended in bronze cylinder
  • Goddess of Childbirth on cylinder seal, circa 1800-1500BC
  • Babylonian prototype of the Madonna and child, Astarte. Possible votive offering from woman recovered from childbirth. Original in the British Museum.