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Cabinet - Sources

Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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The Slave Trade
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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The four treasures of the study: ink, inkstone, brush, and paper
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Polish men
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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Bobart the Younger’s Hortus Siccus
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Soldier’s Letters
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T5: Gold stater, so-called “Croesid”, struck at Sardeis after 547/6 BC.
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Bodleian, MS Canon. Misc. 559, fol. 2r
Spoon of reindeer antler
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Souvenir badge from the Bibi-Khanym Mosque
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Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
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Swedish woman
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Drawing of a woman
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Heavy artillery before gunpowder: the trebuchet
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Mysia: Sites and Sources
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Vatican Library, MS Pal.lat. 1709, fol. 44r
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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The printing process
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