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ID: 700009455
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009455
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2
Magic Scroll (magic scroll; unknown Ethiopian; unavailable; Museum of Natural and Cultural History )
Note: Angels, devils, saints, and other deisgn elements on magic scrolls immediately identify these decorated strips of leather as uniquely Ethiopian.
Titles:
Magic Scroll (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,P)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
magic scroll [300264705] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>, scrolls (information artifacts))

Classifications:
archaeological materials (preferred)

Creation Date: unavailable

Creator Display:
unknown Ethiopian [preferred]
unknown Ethiopian (Ethiopian cultural designation) [500125232]
Locations:
Other: Creation: Ityop'iya [7000489] Africa (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)
Display Materials: pigment on leather
pigments [300013109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, colorant (material))
leather [300011845]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: unavailable
Cultures:
Ethiopian (preferred)

General Subject:
religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
angel (spirit) [300379004]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, spirits (beings)) (AAT)
healing [300412111]
.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Magic Scroll........ [VP]
........ Museum of Natural and Cultural History. University of Oregon [online] (2000-) accessed 18 June 2018
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Museum of Natural and Cultural History. University of Oregon [online] (2000-) accessed 19 June 2018
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