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    ivory carvings, such as this pyxis, the Pyxis of Zamora. The iconography found within the carvings on the surfaces of many of the pyxides created during...
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    of a terracotta "Type III: High Concave-sided" pyxis style Example of a "pointed" style of pyxis, ca. 900-875 BC, Louvre Museum Pyxis of Zamora Pyxis...
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    exhibited. Two items of the so-called Alhambra vases [es] stand out within the collection of Nasrid pottery [es]. Pyxis of Zamora The deer of Medina Azahara [es]...
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    epigraphic motifs. Notable surviving examples include the Pyxis of al-Mughira, the Pyxis of Zamora, and the Leyre Casket. During the Taifas period, art and...
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    Ivory carving (category Ivory works of art)
    visual characteristics. In the Pyxis of Zamora, the inscription reads, "The sight I offer is of the fairest, the firm breast of a delicate maiden. Beauty has...
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    The Lady of Elche (Spanish: Dama de Elche, Valencian: Dama d'Elx) is a limestone bust that was discovered in 1897, at La Alcudia, an archaeological site...
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    Santos, the Lady of Ibiza, the Bicha of Balazote, the Treasure of Guarrazar, the Pyxis of Zamora, the Mausoleum of Pozo Moro and a napier's bones. In addition...
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    epigraphic motifs. Notable surviving examples include the Pyxis of al-Mughira, the Pyxis of Zamora, and the Leyre Casket. The caliphal workshops also produced...
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    -4.14917 The Treasure of Guarrazar, Guadamur, Province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns...
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    collection at the Louvre in Paris. Pyxis of Zamora Leyre Casket Makariou, “The al-Mughira Pyxis,” 316 "Qantara - Pyxis of al-Mughira". www.qantara-med.org. Retrieved...
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    tableland in the northeast of the province of Granada. The town of Baza was the site of the Ibero-Roman city of Basti and, in one of its two necropoleis, the...
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    Lady of Cerro de los Santos (Dama del Cerro de los Santos), also known as Gran Dama Oferente, is an Iberian sculpture from the 2nd century BCE, that is...
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    Guanche mummy of Madrid or Guanche mummy of Barranco de Herques, is a mummy of an ancient Guanche individual, which is now on display at the National Archaeological...
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  • Phoenician Harpocrates statues (category Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid)
    The Phoenician Harpocrates statues are two copper alloy statues of the Greco-Egyptian god Harpocrates, with Phoenician inscriptions on their bases. The...
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    Northern England and south-east Scotland), bone (whale) Pyxis of Zamora, 964, Islamic Spain, ivory Pyxis of al-Mughira, 968, Islamic Spain, ivory Troyes Casket...
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    The Bacchus of Aldaia (Spanish: Baco de Aldaya) is a Roman marble statuette of the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus) that was found in La Ereta dels Moros in...
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    The Bicha of Balazote is an Iberian sculpture that was found in the borough of Balazote in Albacete province (Castile-La Mancha), Spain. Carlos Fuentes...
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    of Pozo Moro is a Mausoleum of the Iberians from the end of the 6th century BC, which was discovered in 1970 in excavations made in the Province of Albacete...
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    head of a woman, body of a winged lion and tail of a snake. This particular sphinx may have been included in an Iberian tomb to carry the soul of the deceased...
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    Priest of Cadiz is a gold and bronze figure, 12.9 cm high, that dates from the 8th century BC. It is on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain...
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    Lex Malacitana (category History of Málaga)
    Malacitana ("Flavian law of Malaca") is a bronze tablet bearing Latin local statutes which deal with the official activities of the duoviri iuri dicundo...
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    It is at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid. The Lady of Galera is most likely of Phoenician manufacture. She sits between two sphinxes...
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    Lex Ursonensis (category Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid)
    foundation charter of the Caesarean colonia Iulia Genetiva at Urso near Osuna (province of Seville, Andalusia) in southern Spain. A copy of its text was inscribed...
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    Lady of Ibiza is a ceramic figure, 47 cm tall, that dates from the third century BC. It is on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain...
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  • Magacela stele (category Archaeology of Extremadura)
    The Magacela stele is a stele found in southwestern Iberia, made of slate and dated from the Late Bronze Age. It is exhibited at the National Archaeological...
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    The Bear of Porcuna is a sculpture dated from the 1st century BC depicting a bear or a lioness leaning on a herma. It is exhibited at the National Archaeological...
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    National Archaeological Museum of Madrid in 1964. It was first published in 1964 by Javier Teixidor. The papyrus tells the story of two brothers who made a pilgrimage...
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  • Thumbnail for Bull of Osuna
    The Bull of Osuna is a limestone high relief Iberian sculpture, 82 cm high, dated from the end of the 5th century BCE, that is on display at the National...
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    Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid. It was part of an offering by King Ferdinand I of León and Queen Sancha to furnish the basilica of San Isidoro de...
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    Treasure of Gazteluberri is a set of coins, of different materials gold, silver and iron, buried at the end of the 16th century CE or the beginning of the...
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