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Scarab Amulet
Undetermined
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Glass Weight of Sahh, NE Africa, 1240 - 1400. 1974.268.1078
Authority: Sahh
Undetermined
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Northern Syria, Dana plain, Sarmada
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Lebanon, March 1905
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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Fragment of the Breast and Shoulder of a Man
Undetermined
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Risālah fī awāʼil kutub al-ḥadīth
Sunbul, Muḥammad Saʻīd ibn Muḥammad, -1761 or 1762
Arabic
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'The South Arabian Expedition of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna and the approach of Prof. Dr. David Heinr. Müller.'
Hermann Lukaschik (publisher) | Carlo Graf Landberg (author) | David Heinrich Müller (author)
German
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Northern Syria, Jebel Sem'an, Deir Sem'an
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Turkey, May 1911
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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North Syria, Jebel Barisha, Babisqa
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Liturgy Mosseri V.74.2
heb,jrb
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Untitled
Undetermined
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The last corridor
Director: Youssef Sharaf El-Din | Actor: Elsie Fernini
Arabic
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Akam Al-Murjan’s book on strange news and the rulings of the jinn Sheikh, the scholar and hadith scholar, Judge Badr al-Din Abi Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Shibli al-Hanafi, who died in the year 769 AH.
Al-Shibli, Muhammad bin Abdullah, 1312-1367, author
Arabic
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Turkey, May 1905
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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Liturgy 154.13
heb,jrb
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Commentary T-S Misc. 5.72a
Saʿadya Gaʾon
Judeo-Arabic
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al-Bulhan.
Impact: Al-Isfahani
Arabic
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Palestine, January 1900
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Silver dirham of Husayn, Harat, 895 H. 1974.26.266
Authority: Husayn
Undetermined
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Letter (?)
ara,heb
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Gold dinar of al-Mustansir, Madinat al-Salam, 638 A.H. 1973.56.150
Authority: al-Mustansir
Undetermined
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Funerary Cone of the Prince of Kush, Merymosi
Undetermined
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Women in Ecstatic Prayer, Talabani Tekiye, Kirkuk, 2016 (6)
Taha, Lazha
Arabic
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Liturgy T-S NS 150.220
Hebrew
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Piyyuṭ; medical T-S 16.31
Judah ha-Levi
ara,heb
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Legal document T-S Ar.40.37
Arabic
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'File 8/10 Lighting and buoying in the Gulf'
Bahrain Political Agency (creator)
English
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Untitled
Undetermined
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'File J/6 Proclamations Issued by the Municipalities'
Manamah Municipality (correspondent)
English
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Northern Syria, Idlib Governorate, Jebel Barisha, Baqirha church
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Wadjet-eye Amulet
Undetermined
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‘Book No 157 Old Index From May 1847 To November 1849’ Vol 157 Secret letters outward
Chief of Sohar (witness)
English
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Magical 160.114
Judeo-Arabic
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Place de la Concorde
French
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Greek Manuscripts 590. Menaion (Dec).
Greek (Ancient)
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Gold 1/4 Dinar of Al Zafir bi-Amr Allah, Tulaytula, nd H
My virginity: Al Zephyr is by God’s command
Undetermined
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Rendering of the temple on the south side, temple of Bêl (Palmyra, Syria)
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Sherd 2.56 x 0.24 in. (6.5 x 0.61 cm)
Undetermined
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Above the peristyle cornice, temple of Bêl (Palmyra, Syria)
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Divine warnings against the vain idolatry of the nations (Second Book: Warnings to Israel in the prophetic books)
Author: Orobio de Castro, Isaac
Undetermined
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Legal document 154.121
heb,jrb
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Plate
Calligrapher: Çırçırlı Ali, -1902
Arabic
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Mukhtār to the fatwá
Mawṣili, Abd Allāh ibn Mahmūd, 1202 or 1203-1284
Arabic
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Liturgy T-S Ar.21.144
Saʿadya Gaon
heb,jrb
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[The double stone dock]
eng,ota,tur
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Untitled
Sumerian
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Liturgy T-S H8.35
Hebrew
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Incense Burner
Undetermined
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Untitled
Akkadian
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Untitled
Undetermined
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'File 27/12 II Kuwait Trade Reports from 1917-18 to 1923-24'
Government of Sind, Collector of Customs, Karachi (recipient) | Political Resident, Persian Gulf (recipient) | Emir of Kuwait (correspondent) | Government of India, Foreign Secretary (recipient) | Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (recipient) | Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent) | Persian Gulf Steam Navigation Company Limited (correspondent)
ara,eng
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Turkey, May 1907
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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Untitled
Sumerian
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Legal document; accounts; jottings T-S 20.31
ara,arc,jrb
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PZ 5894/35 'Persian Gulf: administration of estate of Mr W N Sequeira, bankrupt British subject'
HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent) | British Consul, Ahwaz (correspondent)
English
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Letter from Gertrude Bell to her stepmother, Dame Florence Bell
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
English
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Anwar al-malakūt and Sharḥ al-Yāqūt
Ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī, al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf, 1250-1325
Arabic
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Main Title: Ram Singh I of Kota hunting rhinoceros (NY Met, Lent by private collection) | Image Title: Detail view 23901169
Kotah Master (Artist)
Undetermined
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Photograph taken by Gertrude Bell in Turkey, June 1909
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
Undetermined
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Syria, Hama governorate, gathering of men carrying a banner with religious inscriptions in Apamea
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Syrie du Nord, Jebel Sem'an, Taqla
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Untitled
Undetermined
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Liturgy T-S NS 230.93
heb,jrb
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The meaning of al-ḥasanah in the third statement of al-aḥādīth al-mushtahirah ʻalá al-alsinah
Sakhāwī, Muḥammad ibn Ɛbd al-Raḥmān, 1427 or 8-1497
Arabic
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Bas-relief with three figures making a sacrifice and Palmyrene inscription, temple of Bêl (Palmyra, Syria)
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English
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Untitled
Akkadian
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Unidentified 70.61
Judeo-Arabic
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Main Title: Shah Tahmasp (Houghton) Shahnama, f. 69b (TMoCA) | Image Title: f. 69b: Rudaba confides in her maids 23044381
attributed to Painter A (Qadimi), 16th c., Iranian, studio of Sultan Muhammad, fl. ca. 1505-1550, Iranian (Artist) | Firdawsi, b. 940-941/329-330 AH; d. 1020-1021/411 AH, Iranian (Author)
Undetermined
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Main Title: Minto Album (Chester Beatty Library MS. 7 / V&A IM.25-1925) | Image Title: Detail view, In 07A.5a: Jahangir holding a globe 20330021
Govardhan, 17th c., Indian, Balchand, Indian (Painter)
Undetermined
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Letter from Gertrude Bell to her half-sister, Lady Florence 'Elsa' Richmond [née Bell]
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian
English
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Silver drahm of `Abd Allah Amir i-wrwyshnikan, DA(P), 684 - 685. 1971.316.1393
Authority: `Abd Allah Amir i-wrwyshnikan
Undetermined
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Northern Syria, Jebel al-A'la, Qalb Lozé
(Ifpo), French Institute of the Middle East
English