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Mitra with Inscription
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
From Afrati. Ex Norbert Schimmel Collection.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Schimmel Foundation Inc.
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