To Lasting Glory

Overview and Issue

• Article on Adorne’s Syrian Wine Vessel
• WG153

Abstract

• Author’s research of a Syrian wine jar possibly owned by Anselm Adorne. Jar with exact inscription from the correct time period discovered in a 1983 brochure from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also recounted are the main events of Adorne’s last seven years and his murder in 1483.

Author

• Robyn Winder

Dunnett Book Citations

• SOTR 22, GEM 3.33, GEM 5.52

Historical Characters

• Anselm Adorne

Fictional Characters

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Locations

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Literature

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Illustrations

• Jar, 14th century, attributed to Syria. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891.

Historical Events

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Cited Works

• ‘Machiavelli: Your Own Arms’, The History of Eternity, James E. Winder (Setarcos Spectrum Pubilcations, 2020)
• ‘Islamic Pottery: A Brief History’, Marilyn Jenkins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v 40, no 4, Spring 1983

Quotes from Dunnett

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