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37-16-427.1

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 37-16-427.1
Current Location Middle East Galleries - On Display
Provenience Iraq | Tepe Gawra
Locus Area A
Period Halaf Period
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Well baked buff ware, wet smoothed. Straight sides expanding to the middle, then curving to a wide flat shoulder on which are 4 pierced lug handles [2 restored]; high wide vertical neck. Incomplete; base, part of neck and body restored. Reddish brown painted decoration showing black where overlaid on body, in ten triangular panels alternately showing birds and rows of connected lozenges; on neck in solid colour. Most sherds blackened. Part of whole. See also, 37-16-427.2

Height 28 cm
Outside Diameter 28.3 cm
Credit Line American School Oriental Research / University Museum Expedition to Tepe Gawra, Iraq; E. A. Speiser, 1937
Other Number G6-348 - Field No SF

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