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Shell

Hard outer covering of invertebrate creatures, composed of calcareous or chitinous material.

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Teaching guide: Mississippian shell gorget

c. 1250–1350

Standard of Ur and other objects from the Royal Graves

c. 2600–2400 B.C.E.

Standing Male Worshipper (Tell Asmar)

c. 2900–2600 B.C.E.

Moche Octopus Headdress

300–600 C.E.

Rina Banerjee, commerce out of the Earth

2017

San Vitale and the Justinian and Theodora Mosaics

begun c. 526–527

begun c. 526–27, consecrated 547, with later restorations

540s

Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast peoples

19th century

Empress Theodora, rhetoric, and Byzantine primary sources

540s

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