Lusterware Cross-Shaped Tile

1262 (Medieval)

31.2 cm 31.2 cm 1.5 cm

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This lusterware cross-shaped tile is decorated with arabesque scrollwork, and bears an inscription in a band around the edge of the cross. This tile and Walters 48.1292 are from the tomb of Imamzada Yayha at Veramin.

Artifact

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19445
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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