Talisman

Dice

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Object Number:	29-221-278B
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Persian
Provenience:	Iran
Section:	Near Eastern
Materials:	Bronze
Height:	2.125 cm
Width:	0.375 cm
Credit Line:	Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904
Other Number:	283 - Sommerville Number 1573 - Sommerville Amulet/Talisman Number

Description

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Collection of Talismans (Maxwell Sommerville) (23 Oct 1889 - 31 Dec 1889)	View Objects in Exhibition
Chess and Playing-Cards (18 Sep 1895 - 31 Dec 1895)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Culin, Robert S. 1898. Chess and Playing Cards: Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the Unites States National Museum in connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia 1895.. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 824 ff

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[Book] Sommerville, Maxwell. 1889. Manual Descriptive of a Collection of Talismans Engraved on Stones and Metals of Various Countries and Epochs, Illustrative of What Man has Worn for his Protection from Accident and Disease; Also, Ancient Gems, Babylonian Cylinders, Persian Seals, etc.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Archaeology and Paleontology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 19, Fig. 1573

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