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Parian Chronicle
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The Parian Chronicle or Parian Marble is a Greek chronology, covering the years from 1582 BC to 299 BC, inscribed on a stele. Found on the island of Paros in two sections, and sold in Smyrna in the ea
Detail from the shorter fragment base of the stele, found in 1897, that is in a museum on Paros. It contains chronicle entries for the years 336–299 B
Detail from the shorter fragment base of the stele, found in 1897, that is in a museum on Paros. It contains chronicle entries for the years 336–299 BC.
Ashmolean Museum
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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities tha
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…presented to Oxford University in 1667, include entries for the years 1582/81–355/54 BC. The surviving upper chronicle fragment currently resides in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. It combines dates for events which modern readers would consider mythic, such as the Flood of Deucalion (equivalent to 1529/28 BC) with dates…
Ashmolean Museum
Front façade of the museum
Front façade of the museum
Wood-engraving of the Ashmolean c. 1845
Wood-engraving of the Ashmolean c. 1845
The museum's renovated central atrium in 2009
The museum's renovated central atrium in 2009
Rive des Esclavons, by J. M. W. Turner, c. 1840
Rive des Esclavons, by J. M. W. Turner, c. 1840