Bowl
These sherds are the remains of a large ceramic bowl. It is made of buff clay and decorated with a cream slip, on which brown lines have been painted. 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. The bowl was found in a earliest levels of the site, which date to the Neolithic.
Artwork Details
- Title:Bowl
- Period:Neolithic
- Date:ca. 5500 BCE
- Geography:Iran, Yarim Tepe
- Culture:Iran
- Medium:Ceramic, paint
- Dimensions:8.94 x 7.68 in. (22.71 x 19.51 cm)
- Credit Line:Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1963
- Object Number:63.102.22
- Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art
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