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Carved chest
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Black walnut tulip poplar plywood and brass, American
The American Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Ronald S. Kane Bequest in memory of Berry B. Tracy and Louis V. Bell Fund 2019
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3d models of the Naxian Sphinx
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The Argonauts Leaving Colchis
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Terracotta statuette of a standing woman
Terracotta statuette of a standing woman
Terracotta
Fabric: (figurine is too dirty to read fabric).
Slip paint: white slip red paint on chest.
Method of manufacture: moldmade hollow; head also hollow molded separat...
Pazuzu Plaque
Pazuzu Plaque
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Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)
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The Serpent Column and the talismanic ecologies of Byzantine Constantinople
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This study examines how the Serpent Column in Constantinople came to be recognized as a talisman against snakes and snakebites in the 1390s. It first gives a working definition of ...