ALT A Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

ALT Stacked metal biscuit tins, pie dishes and bed pans on a green back ground. All have openings filled with wads of cotton to seal them.

ALT A well-preserved Anglo-Scandinavian leather ankle shoe, fastened with a double flap and toggles mounted one on each of two individual flaps. 10th-century AD. The excavations at 16–22 Coppergate recovered nineteen shoes of this style of shoe with double flap and toggles.