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Period : Pre-Islamic
Material : Stone
Height : 2.87 cm
Diameter : 4.4 cm
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Stone lid with lion-shaped knob for south Arabian beehive vessels. Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE. 3rd century BCE – 1st century CE. Mleiha area 7. Calcite.


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