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Cabinet - Sources

BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC.
Image for BSH2: Silver octadrachm of the Bisaltai (Thrace), fragment, c. 465 BC. Kraay and Moorey 1981, no.2 (SNG Ashmolean III 2244). [Obverse]
The 1532 Venetian Reprint of the Giuntina
Image for Toynbee 2634
Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
Image for Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)
A poem written by Christopher Wordsworth at Winchester
Image for A poem by Christopher Wordsworth
Runic Almanac
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Mountains on the moon
Image for Mountains on the moon
Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
Image for Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
Automaton monk, probably Spanish, ca 1550
Image for Automaton monk, ca 1550
The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
Image for Ptolemy World Map, 1482
Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
Image for Typical folio of specimens from Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus, mostly labelled in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
European bellicosity, 1100-1700
Image for Holy Roman Empire, 1618
Tyranny of the Duke of Alva
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
Image for Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
Drawing of a graveyard
Image for PRM 1941.8.173
Medieval vs early modern fortifications
Image for Clone of Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
Image for BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down). [View 1]
Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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The Drake Chair (from 1662)
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Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
Image for Fig 1: Orozbakov’s Manas (Kyrgyzstan)
Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court
Image for 1998.267.269.3
Zodiac Man
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JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment.
Image for JH4: Silver tetradrachm of Athens, fragment, DATE. [Obverse]
Bodleian, MS Digby 81, fol. 128v
Prince Rupert's (1619-1682) plate
Image for Plate of ‘BACCIFERÆ EDULES & NON EDULES SCANDENTES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 1, Tab. 1) sponsored by Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland (1619-1682).