An intact Amlash grey pottery jug, North Iran, late 2nd – mid...
An intact Amlash grey pottery jug,
North Iran, late 2nd – mid 1st Millennium B.C.,
with rope design to neck, quite thick-walled but evenly potted with a wide, cone-shaped neck, raised ridge running round the base of the neck where it joins the body decorated with thick vertical grooves either impressed or
incised, wheel-made, 19.2cm. high
Provenance: UK private collection; acquired by the vendor in 1963 in Iran
Published: S. Middleton, A Preliminary Identification and Tentative Chronology for A Small Collection of Ceramics from Iran, 1999, no. 7.
This does not seem a particularly common shape. It is rather more coarsely made and the walls are thicker and heavier than those of the other vessels (5-6) in this collection. It was possibly intended for domestic use rather than for ritual or funerary purposes.
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An intact Amlash grey pottery jug,
North Iran, late 2nd – mid 1st Millennium B.C.,
with rope design to neck, quite thick-walled but evenly potted with a wide, cone-shaped neck, raised ridge running round the base of the neck where it joins the body decorated with thick vertical grooves either impressed or
incised, wheel-made, 19.2cm. high
Provenance: UK private collection; acquired by the vendor in 1963 in Iran
Published: S. Middleton, A Preliminary Identification and Tentative Chronology for A Small Collection of Ceramics from Iran, 1999, no. 7.
This does not seem a particularly common shape. It is rather more coarsely made and the walls are thicker and heavier than those of the other vessels (5-6) in this collection. It was possibly intended for domestic use rather than for ritual or funerary purposes.
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