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Doge Enrico Dandolo died in 1205 and was buried in Hagia Sophia. During the 19th century restoration, the Italian team placed this marker near the probable location of his burial. The original tomb was destroyed by the Ottomans after the conquest of…

Struck bronze medal. (whole)
Inscription. (reverse)
An enchained slave kneeling right. (obverse)

Obverse inscription: AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
Reverse inscription: WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM

The…

Alloy token. (whole)
A cap of liberty on a pole with rays coming out from it. Legend inscription. (reverse)
A laureate bust of William III. Legend inscription. (obverse)

Inscriptions
Obverse: TO THE FRIENDS FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY…

This flat square weight was used for weighing coins on a balance scale. The inscription provides unusually detailed and precise information concerning the object’s date of issue: twentieth of Phamenoth, eighth indiction (16 March 575 CE). It is rare…

Behind a well-made trench, fronted with palisades, appear the heads of its defenders; words issue from their mouths in long labels. One man stands on the top of the trench, his cap is inscribed "Death or Liberty", his coat and stockings are ragged,…

This porphyry statue depicting the four Tetrarchs (Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius I), was originally designed as two separate sculptures that should show an Augustus and a Caesar. It most likely originally decorated the Philadelphion…

The Order initially included 7 tongues: Provence, Auvergne, France, Italy, Aragon, England, and Germany.

Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine is famous for her supposed discovery of many of the relics of the passion. Herself sainted after death, this relic of her skull is held at Trier Cathedral. The portrait bust shows her holding some of…