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Decorative disc

Database (card):Decorative disc. Flat, crescent-shaped disc, grey-green with 5 small ring-shaped notches and arch-like connecting lines. Remains of gold wire in the engraving grooves. Description: Flat crescent-shaped disc of light green nephrite. On one side engraved lines and round indentations filled with gold wire, traces of which have survived. Such pieces are traded in Damascus, perhaps originating from India?

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Decorative disc
Dimensions
Height: 0,2 cm
Width: 4,4 cm
Depth: 4,3 cm
Material/Technique
Mineral (nephrite), Gold
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I B 1415

Provenance and sources

where
Syria [Land/Region]
Damascus [Stadt]
who
Riebeck, Emil - Collectors

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