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Cabinet - Sources

Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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Tradition
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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Inscription to Cecil Rhodes - King Edward Street
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T21: Silver siglos, “King with bow and dagger” Carradice Type 4.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
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Monographing plants
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Saami bride
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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JH6: Silver stater of Paphos (Cyprus).
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Merton College, 1608-10
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The early modern siege
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Lithograph of Saami items
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Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
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Digitising objects
John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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The Four Voyages of Columbus (1492-1504)
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Clone of The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Russian man
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‘Latin Maiden of Tešanj’
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