Body Sherd
74-25-75
From: Iran | Shahr-I Sokhta
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 74-25-75 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iran | Shahr-I Sokhta |
Period | Bronze Age |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Ceramic | Paint |
Technique | Painted |
Description | Buff ware body sherd, from shoulder of jar, evenly fired, hard, with fine sand temper, wheel-made, with wheel marks visible on interior surface. Exterior surface has brown painted decoration: band at junction of neck/rim and shoulder, another parallel band just below, defining the top of a register of three parallel zig-zag lines. This register is defined at its bottom by another horizontal band. A fourth horizontal band is just below, from which drop swag designs, below which are fine parallel diagonal intersecting lines. |
Credit Line | Iran Survey; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1974 |
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