Slab of cheese of petrified kind

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Object Number 39-15-60/3313

Display Title Slab of cheese of petrified kind

Descriptions

Inventory Description Cheese, brick, petrified

Classification

Faunal

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Mongolian

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Asia / Mongolia

Materials Organic material

Dimensions Overall: 20.5 x 10.5 x 3.1 cm (8 1/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Provenance

Collector Owen Lattimore (ca. 1932)

Donor Donated by John Coddington (February 14, 1939)

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