Pot

71-9-147

From: Iran

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 71-9-147
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran
Locus Central west (Sagzabad, Saveh, Giyan area)
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic | Paint
Technique Painted
Description

Coarse buff ware; wide-mouthed jar form; flaring rim, badly nibbled edge; short and wide neck; gentle carination very low on body; flat base. Painted design: on upper globular shoulder - encircling pot are 2 horizontal / / lines with short vertical lines between them but not connecting them. Inverted triangles connecting similar dashes hang from lower band. Solid circle at apex of each triangle. (7 triangles as described above, eighth has no interior dashes but is formed by a double line with dashes in the middle of it, i.e. between the two lines forming the triangle's sides).

Credit Line Gift of Columbia University through Edith Porada, 1971

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