Alabaster plaque

Made:
700-501
Alabaster plaque

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Alabaster plaque
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Alabaster plaque, carved with what appears to be an early smoking scene, showing a hookah style pipe. The inscription along the top might be Greek, said to be Assyrian. Probably much later, but difficult to identify time or place, so Assyrian(?) 7th to 6th centuries BC

Details

Category:
Classical & Medieval Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A158331
Materials:
alabaster
type:
plaque
credit:
Glendining