artefact
- Museum number
- 1821,0120.15
- Description
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Rectangular polished piece of light grey stone with bevelled corners, one face inscribed in Persian with the place-name "Naqsh-i Rustam".
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.40 centimetres
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Length: 6.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G1/fc15/top/right)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2003- BM, Enlightenment gallery
- Condition
- Complete; original paper label on the back inscribed thus: "Piece of the rock at Nackshi Rustam, with this name inscribed in Persian characters".
- Acquisition date
- 1821
- Acquisition notes
- M.L.A Register notes "Original list in "Letters on Antiquities" about 1818."
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1821,0120.15