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as a gift(?) to her lady
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It is currently in the archives of the
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is a 7th century BCE Phoenician inscription on the lid of an ivory box found in
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66:Description
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325:and Sudan
254:Akan Drum
109:Discovery
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908:Caryatid
903:Antinous
565:and Rome
208:Building
1515:Asherah
1424:Keepers
1419:Friends
918:Hadrian
1410:Staff
1277:I Modi
563:Greece
88:’MTB‘L
1369:Other
1322:Other
928:Venus
140:Notes
923:Vase
418:Asia
92:PṬ’S
57:Iraq
51:and
35:The
823:103
818:102
102:YSR
98:YSD
1471::
813:85
808:84
147:^
74:.
59:.
41:Ur
193:e
186:t
179:v
104:.
100:/
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