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    A stone palette (also called a toilet tray) is a round tray commonly found in the areas of Bactria and Gandhara, and which usually represent Greek mythological...
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    zoomorphic palette often had an upper-centrally formed hole, presumably for suspension, and thus display. There are also Near East stone palettes, from Canaan...
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    deliver any stone palettes during their excavations", in "Les palettes du Gandhara", p89. "The terminal point after which such palettes are not manufactured...
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    According to another version, he used Medusa's head to turn the sea monster to stone. In a different story, Heracles slew a Cetus to save Hesione. A Cetus had...
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    Sagala where some Indo-Greek artistic remains have been found, such as stone palettes. Some Buddhist cultural objects related to the Indo-Greeks are known...
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    The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from...
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  • deliver any stone palettes during their excavations", in "Les palettes du Gandhara", p89. "The terminal point after which such palettes are not manufactured...
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    Libyan Palette The Libyan Palette (also variously known as the City Palette, the Libyan Booty Palette, the Libyan Tribute Palette, the Siege Palette, the...
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    used Hellenistic decorative motifs such as fruit garland and scrolls. Stone palettes for aromatic oils representing purely Hellenistic themes such as a Nereid...
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    care for their calves and provide humans with milk. The Gerzeh Palette, a stone palette from the Naqada II period of prehistory (c. 3500–3200 BC), shows...
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    5 km (0.93 mi) to the north-east. A Nereid riding a Ketos sea-monster, stone palette, Sirkap, 2nd century BC. Harpocrates, Late Hellenistic, Sirkap. Head...
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    BC Mythological scene with Athena (left) and Herakles (right), on a stone palette of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, India Atena farnese, Roman copy...
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    pertaining to the art of Palmyra and Persia. Gandhara stone palette Fragment of a Gandhara stone palette Gandhara Poseidon Gandhara Triton Sunshine City World...
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    Takkhasilā in Pali. The city's Sanskrit name translates to "City of Cut Stone" or "Rock of Taksha" in reference to a story in the Ramayana that states...
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  • granite palettes were used to grind malachite and amazonite which are assumed to be used as pigments. The three different classes of stone palettes are rectangular...
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    organized by John Marshall. Several of them are toilet trays (also called Stone palettes) roughly imitative of earlier, and finer, Hellenistic ones found in...
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  • Several S.E.C.C. Motifs on a ceremonial stone palette found at the Moundville Archaeological Site in Moundville, Alabama...
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    Indo-Parthian stone palette, illustrating a fire ritual (left); Agni the Hindu deity of fire, with a very prominent place among Rigvedic deities (right)...
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    inscribed on a stone palette. Later, one of the Qing officials, to test his merit, asked him if he could remember what was on the stone palette. Lê recited...
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    (Mississippian culture) Ceremonial stone mace, Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma (Mississippian culture) Engraved stone palette, Moundville site, Alabama, back used...
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    Mississippian culture as it may have looked at its peak 1050–1400 CE Engraved stone palette from Moundville, illustrating two horned rattlesnakes, perhaps referring...
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    Buddha, ancient region of Gandhara, northern Afghanistan, 1st century Stone palette of a Nereid sea-goddess riding a Ketos sea-monster, Sirkap, 2nd century...
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    (文化会館), and the entrance fee is 900 yen. Gandhara stone palette Fragment of a Gandhara stone palette Gandhara Poseidon Gandhara Triton Aphrodite at her...
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    Larry Graham (category Sly and the Family Stone members)
    technique on the electric bass guitar, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "thumpin' and...
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    A stone palette of the type found in the Early Saka layer at Sirkap, Punjab...
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    Mississippian culture as it may have looked at its peak 1050–1400 CE. Engraved stone palette from Moundville, illustrating two horned rattlesnakes, perhaps referring...
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  • and agate tools, stone objects, abundant and diverse jewelry items (beads, bracelets, pendants, amulets), sheets of mica, stone palettes, bone tools and...
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    malicious. The Choctaw believed that he often playfully threw sticks and stones at them. All unexplained sounds heard in the woods were attributed to Bohpoli...
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    the objects of the collection were exhibited in China in 2018–2019. Stone palette Bactrian statuette Greek gods Gandhara Atlas, 2nd-3rd cent. CE Vajrapani...
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  • The Willoughby Disk, a Mississippian ceremonial stone palette from Moundville Archaeological Park, housed onsite in the Jones Archaeological Museum. Photo...
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