Body Sherd

74-25-55

From: Iran | Sang-I Chakhmaq

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 74-25-55
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran | Sang-I Chakhmaq
Period Chalcolithic
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Technique Slipped | Painted
Description

Red ware body sherd with dark grey core, soft, with vegetable temper, hand made. Cream slip with exterior and interior painted decoration: Interior--parallel lines of varying thicknesses; Exterior--roughly parallel wavy lines, with fine lines on either side of thicker ones, suggesting an irregular painting instrument.

Credit Line Iran Survey; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1974

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