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angel (ivory diptych panel, Constantinople c530)
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St Cosmas and St Damian flanking the story of Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego (Egyptian wall painting, c600)
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Scenes from the Passion (ivory casket panels, Rome, c430)
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The Lichfield Angel (c800)
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The Franks Casket: Weland the Smithy and the Adoration of the Magi (ivory, Northumbria, c700)
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The Franks Casket: Romulus and Remus (ivory, Northumbria, c700)
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The Franks Casket: a northern Euopean myth, cloaked figures and an animal-human hybrid (ivory, Northumbria, c700)
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The Franks Casket: the Roman army attacks Jerusalem (ivory, Northumbria, c700)
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elephant (detail, Hall of the Ambassadors mural, Samarkand, c660)
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geese (detail, Hall of the Ambassadors mural, Samarkand, c660)
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three men, one walking, two riding on a camel (detail, Hall of the Ambassadors mural, Samarkand, c660)
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votive panel of the Legend of the Silk Princess, wooden silk beater (Bokara, 8th Century)
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gilded chrismatory (England/northern France, c720)
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slave collar, silver necklace (Scandinavian, c800)
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The Lichfield Angel (c800)
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silk sutra wrapper (Dunhuang, China, 8th Century)
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Buddhas
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high status woman (northern China, early 8th Century)
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camel (Henan, China c720)
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horse (Henan, China, early 8th Century)
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tomb figurines (China, c700)
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Silk Roads
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to Silk Roads!
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Jesus as a Bodhisattva (silk hanging, Dunhuang, China, c800)
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Sogdianan goddess Nana (charred wood, Samarkand c500)
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Anthimus, Leontius, and Eutropius, brothers of Cosmas and Damian (wall painting, Egypt, c600)
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The Incredulity of St Thomas (ivory, Aachen, c800)