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Encyclopedia ID 1341
Nabulsi Soap Tower
Also known as Sabun Nabulsi · صابون نابلسي

Cut cooled olive-oil soap slabs into cubes, stamp each, then stack them into airy cones and towers so air flows and nothing falls, over weeks of drying.
Heritage note
Part of the living heritage of Palestine.
Origins
A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Mesopotamia, Levant and Arabia.
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