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Ritual Basin
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Bronze, Afghanistan or Central Asia
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Samuel Eilenberg Collection Ex Coll.: Columbia University Purchase The Dillon Fund Gift 1987
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