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View full screenLarge wall tile painted in black with the portrait of the fourth century Sassanian ruler Ardashir, framed in a foliage border: Middle East, Iran, probably Tehran, c1900
A.1990.202
Tehran, Iran, West Asia
c. 1900
Clay; composite body paste of ground flint and orange clay; painted in white clay slip and shades of sepia and black
Depicted: Ardashir
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