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Title	Tile
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	Overall length: 16cm (approx), Across broken edge width: 16cm, Thickness: 3.5cm
Library:	Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID	C.620-1922
Record ID	C.620-1922
Library Location	Middle East Section
Notes	Tile fragment, earthenware, two-tone lustre painted decoration; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century
Sample Text	Transliteration .
Malzemeler ve teknikler	Earthenware, lustre and glazed
Fiziksel açıklama	Tile fragment, yellow-coloured earthenware with many airholes and a vegetal temper, presumably part of an elongated hexagonal tile, covered in a white slip and glazed also on the sides. The surface is densely 'sponged' or stippled with two lustre metallic oxide pigments, ruby and dark gold-brown, to resemble marble or granite. Traces of a red Herzfeld Number.
Üslup	Abbasid

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Tile

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions Overall length: 16cm (approx), Across broken edge width: 16cm, Thickness: 3.5cm

Library Victoria and Albert Museum

Library Asset ID C.620-1922

Record ID C.620-1922

Library Location Middle East Section

Notes Tile fragment, earthenware, two-tone lustre painted decoration; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century

Sample Text Transliteration .

Malzemeler ve teknikler Earthenware, lustre and glazed

Fiziksel açıklama Tile fragment, yellow-coloured earthenware with many airholes and a vegetal temper, presumably part of an elongated hexagonal tile, covered in a white slip and glazed also on the sides. The surface is densely 'sponged' or stippled with two lustre metallic oxide pigments, ruby and dark gold-brown, to resemble marble or granite. Traces of a red Herzfeld Number.

Üslup Abbasid