Shell Disk with the Resurrection of Christ

Unknown Palestinian, Palestinian

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18th century

Shell with black, red, and red paint

Overall: 5 5/16 × 5 5/16 × 1/8 in. (13.5 × 13.5 × 0.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

13.15.787

Geography

Place Made: Palestine, West Asia, Asia

Period

18th century

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed: RESUREXIONE

Course History

ASCL 51.06/REL 41.07, Buddhism Sex, Gender in South East Asia, Sara Swenson, Spring 2022

HIST 96.01, Colonialism and Culture in Asia and Africa, Douglas Haynes, Spring 2022

REL 43.01, Buddhism in America, Reiko Ohnuma, Spring 2022

Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023

Psychological & Brain Sciences 7.03 – Why People Believe in Weird Things: Science, Pseudoscience, and Thinking Critically about Human Behavior, John Pfister, Winter 2024

Provenance

Unknown collector, possibly given in the late 18th or early 19th century; catalogued, 1913.

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