Terracotta pyxis (box with lid) – Greek, Attic – Middle Geometric II – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254598
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Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
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Gold NecklaceThe striking way in which this piece, with its circular stone-set gold elements surrounded by small pearls, is stylistically reminiscent of the miniature of the zenana (harem) scene in the Met (30
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Tunic with Dionysos and Dionysian ThemesA longer, wider version of the tunic was the ubiquitous garment of the Late Antique period. This tunic is one of four in the Museum’s collection said to be from Akhmim, an ancient weaving center and apparently a center of both pagan and Christian thought and religion
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