Research record
Sources & Corrections
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- Effective
- 24 August 2026
- Last reviewed
- 30 August 2026
Source hierarchy
Our first layer is translated primary text or a dated collection object. The second is museum cataloguing and institutional scholarship. Editorial comparison comes last and is labeled as interpretation.
Core research shelf
- Herodotus, Histories 2.73 — Perseus Digital Library
- Commentary on Herodotus 2.73 — Perseus Digital Library
- Tacitus, Annals 6.28 — LacusCurtius, University of Chicago
- Pliny, Natural History, Book 10 — Perseus Digital Library
- Ancient Egyptian Symbols — World History Encyclopedia
- Panel with Five Phoenixes in a Garden — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Art of the Islamic World educator resource — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Concourse of the Birds — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Phoenix and Peacock in a Landscape — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Outer Robe with Phoenixes and Paulownia — The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Designing The Firebird ballet — Victoria and Albert Museum
- Maiastra by Constantin Brâncuși — National Gallery of Art
- A Phoenix, about 1270 — J. Paul Getty Museum
- The Stammheim Missal — J. Paul Getty Museum
- The Phoenix Jewel — British Museum
- Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum title page — Science History Institute
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Correction log
30 August 2026: Pre-publication research review completed. Distinctions among phoenix, Bennu, Firebird, fenghuang, hō-ō and simurgh were standardized. No post-publication corrections are recorded.
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