Slab with religious text

Museum number:
9-101
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.371
Description:
Small fragment of slab of gray shale stone, with incised inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a fragment of a religious text.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Tibet
Verbatim coll. place:
Tibet: Ladakh (attr Dr. Bosson)
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Shale
Object type:
archaeology
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Production date:
1000 AD-1900 AD
Accession date:
May 1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
The script is Tibetan (derived from the devanagari script for Sanskrit); the language is Tibetan.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #103: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (June 11, 1965–August 6, 1965) and S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-101, described as Small fragment of slab of gray shale stone, with incised inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a fragment of a religious text.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-101, described as Small fragment of slab of gray shale stone, with incised inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a fragment of a religious text.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-101, described as Small fragment of slab of gray shale stone, with incised inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a fragment of a religious text.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Slab with religious text, accession number 9-101, described as Small fragment of slab of gray shale stone, with incised inscription in Tibetan syllabic script; a fragment of a religious text.

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