Pot
37-16-89
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 37-16-89 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra |
Archaeology Area | Level XII |
Locus | Level XII | Tepe Gawra, 5 J, Burial G 36 - 131 |
Period | Gawra XII |
Date Made | 4400-4200 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Ceramic |
Description | Light greenish-buff ware, wet smoothed. Ovoid-shaped body; wide rim. Bistre painted decoration showing a frieze of bipeds and a quadruped; above and below the animals are 8-pointed stars; in front of the quadruped is an unidentified object. Incomplete, about 1/3 missing; restored. |
Credit Line | American School Oriental Research / University Museum Expedition to Tepe Gawra, Iraq; E. A. Speiser, 1937 |
Other Number | G6-339 - Field No SF |
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