Dish

Museum number:
9-16897
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090016897
Accession number:
Acc.3776
Description:
Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.
Donor:
Bruno A. Schiro and Mary R. Schiro
Collection place:
Iran (Persia)
Verbatim coll. place:
Iran (?), 19th C., magical function (blessing) (fide R. Pinder-Wilson)
Collector:
Bruno A. Schiro and Mary R. Schiro
Materials:
Copper (metal)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dish, accession number 9-16897, described as Dish, copper (?); round, shallow, footed. Inscription inside dish across central area with two bands of script surrounding “text”. Script is Arabic/Persian with numbers and symbols. Diameter: 10.7 cm.

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