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Bowl with Sprouting Beans

Bowl with Sprouting Beans

Date: c. 100 BC - AD 100 (Early Intermediate Period)
Medium: slipped earthenware
Credit Line:Gift, Luther W. Brady, M.D.
Object number: 2006.16.35
The four sprouting beans in this bowl are symbolic trophy heads. The seeds form a cross, a symbolic world center or axis from which all energy flows, and around which all civilized human activity revolves.
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