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Vessel Attachment in the Form of a Snake with Two Heads
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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Tirthankara Suparsvanatha in Kayotsarga, or Standing Meditation, Posture and Protected by a Five-Headed Naga
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Inner coffin of an anonymous lady
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Image of the Snake King, at the fountain of the
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Amjar
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