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Border with Lozenges set within a Pearl Rondel

This jeweled border was set above a hamsa molding (see 30.32.8) in a Buddhist temple at the Khotan site of Pialma.

Credit: Rogers Fund, 1930

6th-7th century
Stucco with color
7.0 x 19.1cm
30.32.10
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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