Dado Panel, 10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Stucco; carved, with some cast plaster elements, H. 40 3/4 in. ( cm


Dado Panel, 10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Stucco; carved, with some cast plaster elements, H. 40 3/4 in. ( cm), Stucco, The original placement of this unique carved stucco panel is uncertain, although its shape and size suggests that it adorned a dado, or the lower half of a wall. It was found in fragmentary form on the floor of a courtyard excavated in the mound known as Sabz Pushan (the Green Covered) at Nishapur, having crumbled from a nearby wall centuries before


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