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Alexandria · MMXXVIExplicit colophon · 2026

Metropolitan Museum of Art · Alexandria

Place · 1870 CE

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Also known as

an Músaem Ealaíne Meitreapholaiteach
Bảo tàng Met
Bảo tàng Metropolitan
Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Metropolitan
Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Metropolitan
Le Met

Image illustrating Metropolitan Museum of Art — archival plate · Wikimedia Commons · Metropolitan Museum of Artsee Wikimedia Commons

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in country · citizen ofUnited States1784 CE
employedCharles Sterling1901 CE
employedDietrich von Bothmer1918 CE
employedDorothea Arnold1935 CE
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Grooms and Horses

1k CE

employedHenry Geldzahler1935 CE

employedHerbert Eustis Winlock1884 CE

containsSeated Bodhisattva (left attendant of a triad)

containsTell Asmar Hoard29th c. BCE

containsTwin Pines, Level Distance1310 CE

containsYoung Archer1491 CE

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