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Box Shared Box 39

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil

 Collection — Box: Shared Box 39, Object: 1
Identifier: GTM-0064
Scope and Contents

Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil, with wooden boards and cord tie, from Madras.

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Japanese sutra scroll, Bussetsu Amida Kyo

 Collection — Box: Shared Box 39
Identifier: GTM-0065
Scope and Contents

Mortuary scroll with the text of the Bussetsu Amida Kyo, or the Shorter Amida Sutra, written in shell gold on indigo-dyed paper; the calligrapher dates the scroll to 1688, one year after the death of their father.

Dates: 1688

Bark-book (pustaha) in Batak Language

 Collection — Box: Shared Box 39
Identifier: GTM-0066
Scope and Contents

Magical/medical knowledge compiled by a member of a class of magician-priests called datu, written in the Batak language of Sumatra.

Dates: 1750 - 1850

Cuneiform tablet

 Collection — Box: Shared Box 39
Identifier: GTM-0067
Content Description

Unknown text in cuneiform.

Dates: 900-300 BCE