Body Sherd

74-25-75

From: Iran | Shahr-I Sokhta

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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