ID: MK&G 2013.176 (former inventory number, returned to National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul 2019)
Object type: marble panel, wall decoration
Origin: Ghazni, Afghanistan
Date/Period: 1099-1114/5/Ghzanavid
Material: marble
Measurements: 60*43 cm Language: Persian
Provenance: excavated by Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente between 1955 and 1966, placed in Ghazni museum, relocated to a storage in 1979, sold in action Boisgirard-Antonini Paris 2013, MK&G Hamburg 2013-2019, 2019 National Museum Kabul
The research for this 3D object was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.