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Some of these are not works of art but important inscriptions, the first Greek inscriptions that had been seen in
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in the early seventeenth century, the first such comprehensive collection of its kind in
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arises from hence, that it furnished the greatest part of the Marmora Arundeliana.
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Chambers' Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities
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