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s= Art, Ancient--Egypt
s= Art, Ancient--Greece
s= Art, Ancient--Middle East
s= Tombs--Egypt
s= Temples--Egypt

​s= Art, Egyptian
s= Egypt--Antiquities
s= Egypt--Social conditions
s= Funeral Rites and Ceremonies--Egypt
s= Egypt--Religious life and customs

s= Art, Greek
s= Greece--Social life and customs
s= Sculpture, Greek
s= Mythology, Greek in art
s= Sculpture, Hellenistic
s= Temples, Greek

s= Art, Roman
s= Portrait sculpture, Roman
s= Rome--Antiquities
s= Temples, Roman
s= Women--Rome--Social conditions

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NA  architecture
NB  sculpture
NC  drawing, design, illustration
ND  painting
NE  prints
NK  design, decorative arts
NX  visual and performing arts
TR  photography
TS  industrial design (level 2)
Z 40-286  typography

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