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Ray Winfield Smith Collection eagle fragment relief-cut

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Islamic, Byzantine, or Roman? An Unusual Fragment from the Smith Collection
Islamic, Byzantine, or Roman? An Unusual Fragment from the Smith Collection
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Among the objects from the collection of Ray Winfield Smith that are in The Corning Museum of Glass, one relief-cut fragment has provoked widely divergent views about its identity. 1 The object (Fig. 1), which Smith acquired in Cairo, may be described as follows: Fragment with eagle [55.1.148].