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Fragment of Egyptian blue on mud from the Palace of Sargon the Great at Khorsabad, Assyria
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The pigment is Egyptian Blue. It was applied to a mud plaster which had first been given a white priming coat of impure lime whitewash, consisting of unburned lime chalk.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
From the Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad. Found by the Oriental Institute Expedition University of Chicago.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Prentice Duell
Title: Fragment of Egyptian blue on mud from the Palace of Sargon the Great at Khorsabad, Assyria
Description:
The pigment is Egyptian Blue.
It was applied to a mud plaster which had first been given a white priming coat of impure lime whitewash, consisting of unburned lime chalk.
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