Amulet inscribed in Middle Persian script

Acquired by the Museum in 1989, purchased from Mehdi Mahboubian, New York.

Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 119 (July 1, 1988 - June 30, 1989), p. 16.

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