ancientpeoples:Marble model of a shell400 BCClassical GreekThis work imitates a pelican’s foot shell
ancientpeoples:Marble model of a shell400 BCClassical GreekThis 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.(Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art) -- source link
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