Inscription: Inscribed: (left, on architrave) REX·REGVM·DOMINVM [DOMINANTIVM] (King of Kings and Lord [of Lords] [Revelation 19:16].); (center, on entablature) . . . SOR REX ([Nebuchadnez]zar King)
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Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
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Theodore M. Davis Excavations by Quibell and Weigall, 1905. Acquired by Davis in the division of finds, 1905. Theodore M. Davis Collection 1905-1015. Bequeathed to the Museum by Davis, 1915; accessioned, 1930
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From a hypogeum (so-called “tomb B�) on the property of Savino Scocchera in Mandorleto Grotticelle, east of Canosa, Italy 1895, found in a tomb near Canosa, Apulia, Italy; [by 1904 and until 1906, with Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Naples and Paris]; acquired in 1906, purchased from C
burial as the loutrophoroi 06.1021.245 and 06.1021.249; the pyxis 06.1021.253a, b;
Emile Gavet, Paris (until 1897) ; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (May 9–June 9, 1897, no. 327) ; Paul Casimir Garnier, Paris (1897–1916) ; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (December 18–23, 1916, no
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PanelIn their time, the royal quarters at Madinat al-Zahra, the caliphal court in al-Andalus, must have been a spectacular sight, with lavish architectural decoration; luxuriant curtains, textiles, and furnishings; and sumptuous objects
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Fragmentary PlateThis shallow plate has a plain rim with a rounded edge. The wall curves down and in, with a depression ( diam. 4 cm [1 5/8 in.]) at the center of the floor. Most of the floor is missing; similar plates have either a plain base or three applied feet (see, for example, Smith 1957, no
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From the abbey church of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, near Montpellier, France; Pierre-Yon Vernière, Aniane, France ; Charles Vernière, Aniane, France ; Antoine Labrigot, Carcasonne, France ; [ Louis Cornillon, Paris] ; George Grey Barnard American, New York (until 1925)
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This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a „composite casket,“ so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances
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