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Ancient Art of the Mediterranean. Ongoing at the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle,

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Ancient Art of the Mediterranean. Ongoing at the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington. The permanent collection of ancient art at the Seattle Art Museum includes a wide variety of sculpture, ceramics, glass, reliefs, portraiture, utilitarian objects, and funerary art from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. Alabaster head of a Qatabanian (Roman Arabia Felix - ancient Yemen) 3rd - 1st century BCE. The large eye cavities once held typical Near Eastern inlays. Photographed at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.