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    The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (/æʃˈmoʊliən, ˌæʃməˈliːən/) on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first...
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    also known as the Old Ashmolean Building to distinguish it from the newer Ashmolean Museum building completed in 1894. The museum was built in 1683, and...
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    Arthur Evans (category Keepers and directors of the Ashmolean Museum)
    and Sons. —— (1884). The Ashmolean museum as a home of archæology in Oxford: an inaugural lecture given in the Ashmolean Museum, November 20, 1884. Oxford:...
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    Albertina Museum. Vienna, Austria, 2008. Retrieved on 13 June 2011. "Two Men conversing on a Flight of Steps, and a Head shouting". Ashmolean Museum of Art...
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    Elias Ashmole (category People associated with the Ashmolean Museum)
    manuscripts to the University of Oxford to create the Ashmolean Museum, Britain's first public museum. Ashmole was born on 23 May 1617 in Breadmarket Street...
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    Kish tablet (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, while the original is housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. It should not be confused with...
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    Report of the Visitors of The Ashmolean Museum - August 2006—July 2007 (PDF) (Report). Oxford, England, UK: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. 14 January...
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    Alfred Jewel (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    Somerset, England and is now one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It has been dated to the late 9th century, in the reign...
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    The Ashmolean Museum: A brief history of the museum and its collections. Ashmolean Museum/Jonathan Horne Publications. "Support Us". The Ashmolean. Archived...
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    View of Auvers-sur-Oise (category Museum crime)
    and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. Shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 2000, guards at the Ashmolean, responding to a fire...
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  • Jon Whiteley (category People associated with the Ashmolean Museum)
    College, Oxford, whereafter he became a respected art historian at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He wrote his doctorate on the revival in painting of themes...
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    predominantly centralised fashion. Oxford operates the Ashmolean Museum, the world's oldest university museum; Oxford University Press, the largest university...
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    John Evans (archaeologist) (category People associated with the Pitt Rivers Museum)
    prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor...
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    500 Psalm 90 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK XVII 2066 500 Ecclesiastes 6–7 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK XXIV 2386 500 Psalms 83–84 Ashmolean Museum Oxford UK L...
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    who visited the British Museum, especially on public holidays. The Ashmolean Museum, however, founded in 1677 from the personal collection of Elias Ashmole...
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    Messiah Stradivarius (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    tailpiece, and pegs have been replaced. It is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. The violin, known as the Messiah (Messie in French)...
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    1800 BCE) is a clay, cuneiform inscribed vertical prism housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The prism was found in a 1922 expedition in Larsa in modern-day...
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    Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun (category Exhibitions at the British Museum)
    blockbuster King Tut show cancelled for good". March 17, 2021. "Ashmolean Museum". Ashmolean website. Retrieved July 21, 2014. "Griffith Institute Archive"...
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    JSTOR 25535635. 46:43–64. Scarisbrick and Henig, Finger Rings, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003 Delamer, Ida (1996). "The Claddagh Ring". Irish Arts Review....
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    from Upper Norwood, c. 1870, pen and brown ink over pencil on paper. Ashmolean Museum Apple Trees at Pontoise, c. 1872, pastel on paper Portrait of Ludovic...
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    Ashmolean Museum. p. 33. ISBN 0-900090-54-5. Taylor, Gerald; Scarisbrick, Diana (1978). Finger Rings From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day. Ashmolean...
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    Plastered human skulls (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Nicholson Museum in Sydney...
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    regard or as a gift. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, has an outstanding collection. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London also has a good...
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    Arundel marbles (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    comprehensive collection of its kind in England. They are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, having been donated in two groups. The bulk of the collection...
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    Robert Plot (category Keepers and directors of the Ashmolean Museum)
    chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Born in Borden, Kent to parents Robert Plot and Elisabeth Patenden...
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    the Zodiac settle, the Golden Bed and the Red Bed, are now in museums such as the Ashmolean in Oxford, the Higgins in Bedford and the Victoria and Albert...
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    following museums and art galleries are located in the city of Oxford, England (with locations), many run by the University of Oxford: Ashmolean Museum* (Beaumont...
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  • Bernard Berenson and Roger Fry, Clark was appointed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford aged twenty-seven, and three years later he was put in charge...
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    Shrine of Taharqa (category Collection of the Ashmolean Museum)
    borders of present day Sudan, but since 1936 has been kept in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, England. The shrine was originally built within a large...
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    (1863) The Holy Family (1878) Self-portrait at the Age of 14 (1841), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Love at First Sight (1846) F. G. Stephens (1847), Tate Britain...
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