Three Classical Phoenician small finds from the Antiquities collection of the World Museum in Liverpool (United Kingdom)

The World Museum of Liverpool represents the city’s peculiar characteristic as a world-connected harbour. It first opened in 1853 as a natural history and ethnographic museum. Nowadays, the Museum’s Antiquities collection hosts Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Near Eastern specimens. Amongst them, we chose two coins and a scarab from the Levant (5th century BC) that the Museum acquired from two important personalities closely linked to Liverpool after war’s damages. The coins, minted in Sidon, belonged to Prof John Garstang, founder of the first Institute of Archaeology in Britain in 1904 (now the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology of the University of Liverpool). The green jasper engraved scarab dates from Classical Phoenician period was part of a collection purchased from Dr Philip Nelson, medical doctor from Liverpool, numismatist and collector of Classical sculpture and Medieval antiquities.