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Bowl with painted decoration, ca. 2600–1900 B.C.
Excavated at Damb Sadaat (level III), Pakistan
Ceramic, paint; H. 6 in. (15.3 cm)
Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957 (57.99.2)

Damb Sadaat, located in Baluchistan, was outside the area controlled by the cities of the Indus Valley. Similarities in ceramic form and design, however, show that these areas were in contact during the middle and late third millennium B.C.


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  • Bowl with painted decoration, ca. 2600–1900 B.C.
    Excavated at Damb Sadaat (level III), Pakistan
    Ceramic, paint; H. 6 in. (15.3 cm)
    Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957 (57.99.2)