2023.502.2: Small Jar
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.502.2
- Title
- Small Jar
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 2000 BCE
- Places
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Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran)
Find Spot: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran) - Period
- Bronze Age
- Culture
- Iranian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293415
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Buff clay with dark brown painted decoration
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 5.9 x 7 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Ernst Herzfeld, Iran, (by 1927), gift; to Kurt H. Weil, Montclair, NJ (1927-1992), by descent; to Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, New York (1992-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Professor Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.502.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Round-bottomed vessel with carinated shoulder and flaring rim; buff clay with dark brown paint: banded and and triangle decoration on the shoulder. Recomposed from fragments.
Verification Level
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