Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Feb 1970
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hon. William Leonhart
notes: label: Notes
content: Illustrated p. 53 in Taylor, Paul Michael, and Christopher J. Lotis. 2008. Flagship of a fleet: a Korea Gallery guide. Washington, D.C.: Asian Cultural History Program, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Bowl with impressed cicada design; Stoneware; 9 x 17 cm; 8th century; Unified Silla. The cicada design may symbolize the transformation from life to afterlife. After the cicada emerges from the ground, the insect sheds its skin or nymph shell.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Silla Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 287910
label: USNM Number
content: A455472-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl