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Odysseus and the Ram
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
[Nefer Antike Kunst Zurich (by 1993)] sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums 1993.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Walter and Ursula Cliff and William Collins Kohler in honor of Professor Emily T. Vermeule and the Gerhardt Liebmann Bequest by exchange
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