Bowl
Not on view
These sherds were once part of a shallow bowl with a concave base. They are made of reddish-brown clay which has been burnish, and wheel marks indicate the bowl was made on a potter’s wheel. They were excavated at Tepe Nush-i Jan, an Iron Age hilltop site about 60 km sound of Hamadan in western Iran. Nush-i Jan is generally associated with the Medes, an Iranian people known from Assyrian, Achaemenid and Biblical sources. However, the site was evidently reoccupied in the Parthian period, probably between the 1st century B.C. and the 1st century A.D., to period to which this bowl dates. It is a distinctive type of Parthian pottery, known from other sites in Mesopotamia and iran, to which archaeologists have given the charming name of ‘cinnamon ware.’
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