Sherd
69-4-17
From: Iraq | Choga Mami
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 69-4-17 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Choga Mami |
| Period | Samarra |
| Date Made | ca. 5000 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Type unique to site in this period. Large rim sherd from heavy open bowl. Buff to greenish paste, well washed, very hard. Matte surf. Exterior decorated with thin brown paint; band at rim, wide parallel diagonal bands between rim and carination, where they meet a second annular band. Interior: band at rim, prendant loops filled with fine diagonal lines, open space with line of dots. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Joan Oates, 1969 |
| Other Number | M15 - Field No SF |
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