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Square Tanka of Akbar I
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum A Gift to the Museum from Arthur W. Arundel through the Harvard Fund Council Class of 1951
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