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Ten-Milliemes Coin of Husayn Kamil of Egypt
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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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Epigraphic Textile
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Illustrated manuscript of the Hadiqat al-Su'ada (Garden of the Blessed) by Fuzuli
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