Body Sherd

74-25-70

From: Iran | Shahr-I Sokhta

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 74-25-70
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran | Shahr-I Sokhta
Period Bronze Age
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic | Paint
Technique Painted
Description

Buff ware body sherd, evenly fired, hard, with fine sand temper, wheel-made, with wheel marks visible on interior and exterior surfaces. Exterior painted decoration: band at junction of shoulder and neck/rim, double horizontal band further down vessel, with diagonal opposede pairs of arcs, each pair containing a zig-zag or "squiggle", all in brown paint.

Credit Line Iran Survey; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1974

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