Pot
37-16-89
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 37-16-89 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra |
| Archaeology Area | Level XII |
| Locus | Level XII | Tepe Gawra, 5 J, Burial G 36 - 131 |
| Period | Gawra XII |
| Date Made | ca. 4400 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Light greenish-buff ware, wet smoothed. Ovoid-shaped body; wide rim. Bistre painted decoration showing a frieze of bipeds and a quadruped; above and below the animals are 8-pointed stars; in front of the quadruped is an unidentified object. Incomplete, about 1/3 missing; restored. |
| Credit Line | American School Oriental Research / University Museum Expedition to Tepe Gawra, Iraq; E. A. Speiser, 1937 |
| Other Number | G6-339 - Field No SF |
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