In March, the team from The University of Exeter’s Digital Humanities Lab digitised objects from the Leopold Montague collection of of antiquities from Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East.
An enquiry from an MA researcher ends up shedding new light on a little-known object – an oinochoe
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After securing the Seaton Down Hoard for the people of Devon and Exeter RAMM staff are now working on making the 23,000 coins accessible for research and interpretation by specialists and the public.
Research by Maria Duggan for her PhD project on Late Roman and early medieval pottery imported to sites of post-Roman date in Britain, Ireland and on the Atlantic seaboard.
Guest blog from Dr Jon Taylor, Assistant Keeper, Cuneiform collections, British Museum: The RAMM collection of cuneiform tablets is a small but varied and interesting group of inscriptions from ancient Iraq.
Dr Aidan Dodson is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He reports his research on Ancient Egyptian mummy cases in RAMM’s collection.
This guest blog is by freelance conservator Eddie Sinclair. Her work completely transformed a sculpture depicting The Annunciation. The Angel Gabriel is announcing to Mary that she would bear a son through a virgin birth and become the mother of Jesus Christ.