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King Arcesilas of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.
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King Arcesilas of Cyrenaica overseeing the packaging of silphium (the country's main source of income) into ships for export. Gouache painting after a Spartan cylix, c. 580-550 B.C.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: The export of the medicinal plant, silphium, from Cyrenaica in the sixth century B.C. ...

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