Excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola in Hagia Paraskeve, near Alambra, Cyprus (Cesnola, Atlas II, nos. 851, 852) Before 1874, excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola on Cyprus; until 1874, collection of L
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The richness and fame of the Cesnola Collection also did much to establish the Museum’s reputation as a major repository of classical antiquities and put it on a par with the foremost museums in Europe, whose collections had largely been formed at an earlier date.
Cypriot 1st century BCE Bronze water spouts in the form of lion masks Greek or Roman
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Later, in ancient Greek and Roman times, it became the site of one of the most important
Said to be from near Thessaloniki (Richter 1937, p. 292). [With Michael Ritsos, Thessaloniki, Greece]; before 1913, acquired by Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, purchased from M. Ritsos; collection of F
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collection’s 453 terracotta oil lamps dating from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1928. „A Newly Acquired Loutrophoros.“ Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23(2), part 1: p. 54–57, figs. 1–3.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection
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Audio Guide Hear experts illuminate northern Africa’s key role in the Roman and
The movement Luther initiated spread and grew in popularity—especially in Northern Europe, though reaction to the protests against the church varied from country to country.
that had existed for the previous thousand years in Western Christendom under the Roman
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