Catalogue of a valuable assemblage of Greek, Etruscan, Roman and miscellaneous antiquities, collected by a gentleman during his travels abroad, comprising beautiful Etruscan gold ornaments, including a fibula of the highest rarity, fine Etruscan & Roman rings, set in gold, choice specimens of ornamental Greek and Roman glass of elegant forms, rare objects in silver, including a unique simpulum, 12 inches long, in the finest preservation, an exquisite specimen of enamel upon copper of high art and antiquity, an Egyptian tablet in hard stone of pyramidal form, covered with hieroglyphics, of great rarity, 8 inches long, fine Egyptian bronzes, a beautiful Greek vase, and bust of Venus in bronze, and other objects of the same material, ancient Babylonian cylinders and signets of interest and value, etc., etc.; which will be sold by auction by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson ... on Wednesday, the 2nd day of April, 1856
“... antiquity, an Egyptian tablet in hard stone of
pyramidal form, covered with hieroglyphics, of great rarity...
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