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Bowl

ca. 5500 BCE
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • 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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