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Cabinet - Sources

Naqsh-e Rustam: Achaemenid Tombs and Sasanian Reliefs.
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William Holman Hunt, Study of four Eastern figures (c. 1870)
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Lithograph of Saami herding reindeer
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BSH7: Silver siglos/drachm of “Sinope”, uncertain mint (“Class B””), perhaps c. 450–425 BC.
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Prisoner of War notification
Missions in the Americas
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Saami man
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Saami man
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Spoon of decorated reindeer antler
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Technological innovation, c. 1580
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Swiss Mercenaries
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Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town (1666-1679)
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Drawing of classical tombstones
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Richard of Wallingford's Astronomical Clock
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President Nixon
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John Evelyn's (1620-1706) plate
Image for Plate of ‘SILIQUOSÆ TETRAPETALÆ BICAPSULARES’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1680: Sect. 3, Tab. 9) sponsored by John Evelyn (1620-1706).
8. Silk or the silk worm
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Drawing of Lake Hammasjarvi
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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