ec-imens is not always happy inhis estimates. Thus there isa beautiful vase (No. 1224)which Major Smith thinksover 500 years old, on theground that it bears au in-scription in Pehlevi; but thatis no more evidence than would be a Latin epitaph in Westmin-ster Abbey that the monument w\is erected… … OLD PERSIAN EiUIUt.NWAKE (iVAIER-BOTTLE). 96 THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. cuted at Ispahan. The true damascene, says our collectoi, ismade of a particular kind of iron. After the object is forgedit is placed for six or eight days in the furnace of a hot bath,where the greatest attention has to be…
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