Site Title: Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Contributors: by Faya Causey

Contents
Introduction
Catalogue
Orientalizing Group
Ship with Figures
Korai
Human Heads
Animals
Lions’ Heads
Boars
Rams’ Heads
Other Animal Heads
Forgery
Technical Essay
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Authors
About

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Chicago “Korai.” Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum. https://www.getty.edu/publications/ambers/objects/groups/3/.

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