Sherd
Jar
31-52-450
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-52-450 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra |
| Archaeology Area | Levels V-VI |
| Locus | Levels V-VI |
| Period | Gawra VI |
| Date Made | 2800-2500 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Snake |
| Description | Greenish-buff paste with some veg. material in it. Wheel-made, matt surface; rim sherd from jar. Decorated with applied snake curving up shoulder over the rim, head on interior of pot. Flat head, tiny circles impressed over body. Shoulder of pot dec. with incised triangle filled with lines incised parallel to sides. Below, row of incised crescents. |
| Length | 11 cm |
| Width | 9 cm |
| Thickness | 1.3 cm |
| Credit Line | American School Oriental Research / University Museum Expedition to Tepe Gawra Iraq; E. A. Speiser, 1931 |
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