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Museum Description: "This tapestry excited scholarly interest immediately after the Blisses acquired it in 1929. They lent it in 1931 to the first major exhibition of Byzantine art in Paris where, according to Royall Tyler, the French art historian…

Another head of John the Baptist is held at San Silvestro in Rome. Additional head relics can be found at a shrine at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus (Great Mosque of Damascus) and the Residenz Museum in Munich. This head of John the Baptist first…

Obv.: Bust of Hadrian, r., laureate and wearing cuirass and paludamentum.
Rev.: The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos), surmounted by lantern; on the summit, a statue standing holding scepter in l. hand; on either side of the lantern, a Triton…

Obv.: Head of Berenice II r., veiled and diademed.
Rev.: Cornucopia flanked by stars and bound with fillet; dotted border.

The designs on this jug are upside down, errors that likely resulted from mass production.

These vessels were made for Jews and Christians, possibly as tokens for pilgrims visiting the holy sites in Jerusalem or for use in burial rites. They…

These vessels were made for Jews and Christians, possibly as tokens for pilgrims visiting the holy sites in Jerusalem or for use in burial rites. They appear to have been mass-produced in a single workshop, since the vessels for the two religions…