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Cabinet - Sources

BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
Image for BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.60. [Obverse]
T30: Silver shekel, struck at Tyre, c. 425-394 BC.
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Portuguese and Spanish Trade Routes
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Repurposed buildings: houses, residences, palaces
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Marshall Refracting Microscope, c. 1715
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Portrait of a Saami girl
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Ottoman Turkish map: fragment of the world map of Piri Reis, 1513
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19. Copper engraving
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New plants, new medicines: tobacco
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JH6: Silver stater of Paphos (Cyprus).
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Models of a Saami couple
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A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Explore the Display Case
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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Letter from Laurence Dunne
Adaptation: Early papermaking in Italy, 1264
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Albert Eckhout, African Woman (1641)
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Guercino, Allegory of Painting (c. 1618)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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An Ethiopian mahdar
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Russian women
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Macrocosm and microcosm
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