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Obv.: Macedonian shield; in the centre, the head of Philip as the new Perseus, wearing a winged helmet that terminates in the forepart of a griffin, a sickle behind.Rev.: Club, with legend above reading BASILEOS (king) with a monogram above the text.…

Obv.: Zeus, laureate, bearded. Rev.: King Philip II, mounted, wearing a kausia (a broad-brimmed Macedonian hat), raising right hand in salute; star to left. Significance: Philip built up a professional army with strong esprit de corps, which was the…

Obv.: Athena head, coiled snake on Corinthian helmet with flowering crests. Rev.: Nike (Victory) standing, wreath in right hand, stylis in left hand; mint symbols. Significance: The types of Athena and Nike would have appealed to Greeks everywhere.…

A memorial plaque dedicated to Mrs Betty Fletcher, graduate of the University of Queensland, Patron of the Friends of Antiquity and donor to the RD Milns Antiquities Museum. The plaque is backed on a piece of Helidon Freestone (the same used in the…

Official launch of the Betty Fletcher Memorial Fund and unveiling of a bronze plaque of Betty Fletcher by Lady Campbell at Grace College

Donation of 2 Macedonian Tetradrachms from Mrs Betty Fletcher and a Greek tetrobol from the Classics and Ancient History Society

An elaborate bronze fibula from the Urartian civilisation which arose in the early Iron Age in the lands between the Caspian and Black Seas. It included parts of modern Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey.

The bow is decorated…

A large, roughly oval fragment from the body of a marble funerary loutrophoros (water carrier). At the top is a small segment of the neck of the vase. The body is decorated with a mourning scene, carved in relief. A bearded man, seated on a…

Terracotta, no slip. Base missing, lamp top heavily restored. Only upper half of handle exits. Badly restored on cracks running from the handle down centre of face to open mouth, from right side of mouth diagonally across to lower left side of beard,…