Marble shell, Classical, ca. 400 B.C., Greek, Marble, Overall: 9 1/2 x 6 in. (24.1 x 15.2 cm), This work imitates a pelican's foot shell, which is common to the Mediterranean. Only a handful of marble shells are known. They must have been manufactured in the same Greek workshops that produced elegant marble vessels intended as grave offerings for the dead
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