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Porphyry vessel with bearded masks
View through The Met
Porphyry, Early Imperial, Roman
Rights: Public Domain
Greek and Roman Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Acquisitions Fund The Jaharis Family Foundation Inc. Gift Philippe de Montebello Fund Philodoroi and Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer Gifts The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Nicholas S. Zoullas Patricia and Marietta Fried Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Aso O. Tavitian Leon Levy Foundation and Barbara and Donald Tober Gifts 2014
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