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33-15-263

From: Iran | Tepe Hissar

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 33-15-263
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran | Tepe Hissar
Archaeology Area DF29X9 PR10
Locus DF 29x9 | Plot Record #10
Period Hissar II
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ceramic
Description

Dark grey ware, thin dark grey slip. Large flat base, ovoid body with greatest diameter below center and sides sharply contracted to very narrow mouth around which are 5 large holes drilled from the outside. Crude incised "Tree" decoration on upper part of body. This vessel seems originally to have been a bottle from which neck was broken and suspension holes drilled later.

Height 14.7 cm
Outside Diameter 11.5 cm
Credit Line Persian Expedition; Erich Schmidt, 1933
Other Number H653 - Field No SF

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