Mummy label made of wood. It is irregularly shaped with two holes by which the label would be attached to the mummy after the embalming process for identification during transportation and in the afterlife. The label is inscribed on both sides in black ink.

Wooden mummy label with two holes to attach the label to the mummy after the embalming process for identification during transportation and in the afterlife. An inscription is incised and written in black ink on one side. The reverse of the label is blank.

A page from a Coptic text of the Song of Moses, Exodus 15. The manuscript has a decorative chapter heading and initial letter. There are 18 horizontal lines of Coptic text, read from left to right.

A section of text from the Book of the Dead.
The text is written in black and red ink on a sheet of papyrus, with red ink used to emphasise the beginning of sections and individual words. There are 10 horizontal lines of hieratic text, read from right to left.

Coptic ostracon of white limestone. Irregularly shaped.
Coptic inscription written in black ink on both sides of a piece of white limestone. The inscription is a letter written by a man called Abraham to his father.

China Pictorial, 1970, vol. 8, no. 266. 44-page large format magazine containing articles and photographs, in English. Edited and published in August 1970 by China Pictorial, Chegongzhuang Road, Peking 28 and printed in the People's Republic of China.

Paperback book of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong edited by Lin Biao and published in 1969 by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing. The book is pocket-sized and has a red plastic cover with an embossed inscription of 18 characters in gold on the front cover.

Calligraphy of a poem by Li Bo painted by Xie Deping in grass style, in ink on paper. There is a seal in red ink on the left hand side of the paper.