Small vial
Algiers, Algeria
Musée Public National des Arts et Traditions Populaires
About National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, Algiers
05/180/08
Copper and silver
H: 14 cm
This small hexagonal vial is decorated with arabesques, floral motifs and Arabic inscriptions, written in cartouches bordered by red copper, reading "work is beneficial, courtesy is a matter of well-being, ignorance is baseness"
"Small vial" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;dz;81;en
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin
MWNF Working Number: DZ 183
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