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jar
Object Type
jar
Museum number
123293
Description
Painted pottery jar; paintings in dull red and black on a half slip include a chariot pulled by donkeys, scenes of feasting and music, a goat and a bird and a man holding up two animals; Scarlet ware; neck partly missing; body consists of many fragments joined and repaired.
Cultures/periods
Early Dynastic II
(?)
Early Dynastic III
(?)
Production date
2800BC-2600BC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Khafajeh (Tutub)
, See comment on its probable find-spot in P. Delougaz, Pottery from the Diyala region, pp. 69-72; Reported to Trustees on 5 May 1933 as being "The site where the pot was discovered is known to be Khafaji, an archaic Sumerian site on the Diyalah. It was not found with antiquities of the archaic period, but turned up alone".
Materials
pottery
Ware
Scarlet Ware
Technique
painted
slipped
Dimensions
Diameter:
30.48 centimetres
Height:
34.29 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Delougaz P 1952a / Pottery from the Diyala Region
(pp. 69-72 and plates 62 and 138)
(reconstruction)
Curtis & Tallis 2012 / The Horse from Arabia to Ascot
(3)
Location
On display
(G56/dc5)
Exhibition history
2013 22 Jun-5 Oct, London, BM, 'From Boushra Almutawakel to Michael Rakowitz' 2012 24 May-30 Sep, London, BM, 'The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot' 2010 29 May-15 Oct, USA, Kentucky Horse Park, 'A Gift from the Desert' 2004 28 Mar-11 Jul, Oldenburg, Landesmuseum fur Natur und Mensch, 'Rad und Wagen' [Wheel and Wagon]
Subjects
mammal
bird
feast/banquet
charioteer/chariot
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Antoine P Samhiry
Acquisition date
1931
Acquisition notes
Reported to Trustees 5 May 1933; correspondence with Samhiry concerning its acquisition dated 3 and 18 May 1933, wherein the pot is stated to come from Khafajah (ANE CORRES 1933).
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
123293
Registration number
1933,0513.1
Conservation
Treatment
: 30 Apr 1991
Treatment
: 29 Mar 2004