Jar with Three Inscribed Bands in Cursive Script
Not on view
This heavily restored jar illustrates the practice of bringing together an assortment of fragments—easily found at Raqqa’s archaeological site—to reconstruct a single, more valuable object. Most of the fragments here originally belonged to the same vessel, but others did not; the latter were filed and glued to fill the gaps. Extensive overpainting, now cleaned away, covered the seams.
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