Large Storage Jar for Cool Water With a Bejeweled Lion, Hare, and Deer
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Other large jars, similar to this one, display inscriptions suggesting that they were used to store water, which would be kept cool by evaporation through the vessels’ unglazed porous walls. Whether incised, molded, stamped, or in the barbotine technique (in which rolled strips and circles of clay are applied to the surface), the vegetal and geometric motifs on these containers were likely inspired by pre-Islamic designs.
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