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Berenice II (c. 267-221 BCE), gold decadrachm, Egypt. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

Ptolemy V (r. 205-181 BCE) gold octadrachm. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

Cleopatra VII silver tetradrachm, 1st century BCE. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

Attalus I (r. 241-197 BCE) on a silver tetradrachm from Pergamon. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

Gold collection found near New Ross, Co. Waterford, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Decorated stone from Kilwarden, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 2500-1700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

The hieratic script identifies the contents of the jar as wine of year 39. From Egypt; precise provenance is unknown. Late 18th Dynasty, circa 1375 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Gold dress fastener from Clones, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

From Rubayyat, Egypt. Ptolemaic period, 305-30 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)

The surfaces of the coffin of Diefiawet were covered with painted scenes and hieroglyphic texts to assist and protect her passage into the afterlife. Isis and Nephthys, the sisters of Osiris, protect the head and the foot of the mummy, and...