Tablet
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
clay
Measurements
5 x 45 x 30 mm
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107810
Summary
A rectangular sun-dried prayer tablet from Iraq. It has a chiselled border of geometric patterns. 'Four tablets of compressed sun-dried earth used in prayer at the Great Mosque, Kerbela, near Baghdad - Turkish-Arabian' (Christie's entry).
Provenance
Purchased in 1986 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund from Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000). Gifted to the National Trust in 1987 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.