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B320

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Iraq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number B320
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Provenience Iraq
Section Near Eastern
Materials Alabaster
Technique Carved
Description

Fragment of shell-shaped tray.

CBS Register: frag. of a shell-shaped tray in aragonite; outside and inner rim decorated with lotus-leaf pattern

The Register is wrong. This is an incised tridacna shell.

Credit Line Purchased from Joseph Shemtob, London; subscription of E. W. Clark, et. al., 1888
Other Number JS 312 - Dealer's Number | P257766 - CDLI Number

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