The British Museum's collection has grown since 1753 and the acquisition of the founding collection of Sir Hans Sloane. Objects have been acquired in a variety of ways. Some objects are subject to ...

The British Museum's collection has grown in many ways over the past three centuries, starting with the 1753 Act of Parliament which purchased for the public Sir Hans Sloane's collection of over ...

Sherds (15 and 6 chips) of Transitional White-on-Red Domestic Ware. Fabric is porous Nile silt with organic temper and sparse sand. Globular pots and jars both large and small are the most common ...

Sherds (28 and one chip) of X-Group Fine White Ware. Fabric is very fine clay with fine black, white and red particles as temper, usually light cream, buff, tan, grey or pink (munsell 5YR 7/4, 10YR6/2 ...

Sherds (19 sherds and 20+ chips) of Meroitic Ordinary Red Ware, a basic late Kushite Meroitic red-ware. The fabric is brown to red-brown mud with abundant sand temper and some organic inclusions. The ...

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