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The "Great Royal Visit" on March 8, 1929 of British dignitaries to Tel Megiddo. From left-to-right: P.L.O. Guy (above), A. Murray Dryer, David Rockefeller, Geoffrey M. Shipton, Mary "Tod" Clark, Edward DeLoach, Robert Scott Lamon, Abby Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., James Henry Breasted, Harry Parker, unidentified fez-wearer. (Image credit: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago via The Times of Israel)
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Tondo (circular portrait) of a high-society Pompeian woman, richly dressed with gold-threaded hair and large gold earrings, bringing the stylus to the mouth and holding the wax tablets (so-called "Sappho"). Discovered in 1760 in Pompeii (VI, Insula Occidentalis). Dates c. 55–79 CE. National Archaeological Museum of Naples.