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    Caylus vase The Caylus vase is an Egyptian alabaster jar dedicated in the name of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I (c.518–465 BCE) in Egyptian hieroglyphs...
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    Lieutenant-General Anne de Tubières, comte de Caylus. His mother, Marthe-Marguerite de Villette de Mursay, comtesse de Caylus (1673–1729), was the daughter of vice-admiral...
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    inscription on a famous alabaster vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the Caylus vase. The Egyptian inscription on the vase turned out to be in the name of...
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    inscription on an alabaster vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the Caylus vase. Champollion found that the Egyptian inscription on the vase was in the name of...
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    Champollion and the orientalist Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin examined the Caylus vase, which bore a hieroglyphic cartouche as well as text in Persian cuneiform...
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    hieroglyph-cuneiform inscription on an alabaster vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the "Caylus vase". The Egyptian inscription on the vase was in the name of King Xerxes...
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    hieroglyph-cuneiform inscription on an alabaster vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the "Caylus vase". The Egyptian inscription on the vase was in the name of King Xerxes...
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     11, 18. Briant 2002, p. 132. Briant 2002, p. 520. Stoneman 2015, p. 1. "vase (inv.65.4695) - inv.65.4695, BnF". medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr (in French)...
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    ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a disproportionately...
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    inscription on the famous alabaster vase in the Cabinet des Médailles, the Caylus vase. The Egyptian inscription on the vase turned out to be in the name of...
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    Artaxerxes I. Egyptian alabaster vase of Darius I with quadrilingual hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions The Caylus vase, acquired circa 1760, was key...
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    development was the bequest of the collection of pioneering archeologist comte de Caylus, who knew that in this fashion his antiquities would be most accessible...
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    Rafael Valls; Caylus (2003–2004). "El Bodegón" An Exhibition: Spanish Still Life Painting from the 17th to the 19th Century (PDF). Madrid: Caylus. Archived...
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    by the 17th-century Précieuses school, is represented by Anne Claude de Caylus, the author of the Art of Love P. J. Bernard, Alexandre Masson de Pezay...
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    encaustic painting, as revived by Anne Claude de Caylus. In 1760 Müntz published Encaustic, or Count Caylus's Method of Painting in the Manner of the Ancients...
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    artistic advice he wisely depended. Coypel's own advisors were the comte de Caylus, the brilliant and tireless antiquary and founder of archaeology, who had...
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    French antiquarian, art collector and amateur archeologist Anne Claude de Caylus travelled in Europe and the Mideast, and described what he had seen in Recueil...
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    another native of Montauban, as well as collections of antiquities (Greek vases) and 18th and 19th ceramics. The Place Nationale is a square of the 17th...
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    water containers. It was criticized by Voltaire in a letter to the Count de Caylus in 1739, as the fountain was still under construction: I have no doubt that...
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    station at Caussade used to export phosphate of lime. Deposits of cantons de Caylus, Caussade and Saint-Antonin were operated from 1870 by an industrial company...
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