Jar with incised decoration
This ceramic jar has a globular body, a flat base, a short neck and an everted rim. It is decorated with incised lines, both horizontal and vertical, as well as vertical zigzags. It is made of gray clay and has been burnished. It was excavated at Yarim Tepe in northeastern Iran, six miles south of the modern town of Gonbad-e Kavus. Yarim Tepe was a small settlement, inhabited from the Neolithic to the Parthian period, with many interruptions. This jar probably dates to the Early Bronze Age, when this region served as an important link between the emerging cities of Mesopotamia and Afghanistan, one of the few sources of both tin and lapis lazuli in the ancient Near East.
Artwork Details
- Title: Jar with incised decoration
- Period: Early Bronze Age
- Date: ca. 2800 BCE
- Geography: Iran, Yarim Tepe
- Culture: Iran
- Medium: Ceramic
- Dimensions: 3.39 in. (8.61 cm)
- Credit Line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1963
- Object Number: 63.102.14
- Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art
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