Bowl fragment
This bowl has been pieced together from seventeen sherds. Approximately half of the rim is preserved with the exterior and inner side decorated with brown paint on a buff background typical of pottery belonging to the Halaf culture. A lozenge pattern with central dots decorates the exterior and lozenges and striations adorn the inner rim. Halaf pottery is remarkable for the quality of its production and, as a result, often survives at sites dating to this period.
Credit: Purchase, Colt Archaeological Institute Inc. Gift, 1983...
c. 5600-5000 B.C.
Ceramic
8.2cm
1983.407
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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