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Cabinet - Sources

Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Pope as Antichrist
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Hemispherical sundial
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Drawing of a Turkish café
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T8: Silver stater in the name of the Lycian dynast Mithrapata of Antiphellos, c. 390-360 BC.
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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The Pakhtakhor-79 Monument (Uzbekistan/Ukraine)
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Central Oxford in 1578
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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The end of the Hundred Years' War, 1453
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Johanninpoika Marataja
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Medieval European cartography, c. 1280: speculative and symbolic
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Drawing of three people
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)
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JH8: Silver bar-ingot, cut down to size from a larger bar.
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The Medieval Worldview
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Examination Papers (1978)
Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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Islamic Alchemy: A Primer
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