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This work imitates a pelican's foot shell, which is common to the Mediterranean. Only a handful of marble shells are known. They must have been manufactured in the same Greek workshops that produced elegant marble vessels intended as grave offerings for the dead.
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Title: Marble shell
Period: Classical
Date: ca. 400 BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: Overall: 9 1/2 x 6 in. (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Classifications: Miscellaneous-Stone, Miscellaneous-Stone Vases
Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John Moscahlaidis Gift, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.19
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