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A storage jar with the three-colour glaze typical of ceramics made during China's Tang dynasty. 8th century CE. (British Museum, London)

A jar in the shape of a bear, Shaanxi / Henan Region, China. Western Han Dynasty, 2nd/1st century BCE. Exhibited in Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

This pottery jar was handmade and painted. It is carinated and stemmed with four equidistant vertically perforated lugs on the carination. Ninevite 5 Period, 3000-2750 BCE. From Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The British Museum, London...

A Mycenaean terracotta stirrup jar, c. 1200 BCE. The name derives from the resemblance of the handle to a double stirrup. The handle is often decorated with a false spout whilst the true spout is to the side and separate from the handle...

This alabaster jar is inscribed with Elamite, Old Persian, and Neo-Babylonian cuneiforms. A cartouche of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I also appears. From Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Regin of Xerxes I, 486–465 BCE. On display...

This jar was found in one of the wine-cellars in the arsenal at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). It is marked in cuneiform with its capacity; 1 homer, 3 seah, 7 qa. In fact, it holds about 300 liters. Assyrian, late 7th century BCE. From Nimrud, Mesopotamia...

This jar was dedicated to Shulgi, king of Ur III dynasty, by the priestess Shuqurtum. There are two incised channels at the upper half; between them, the cuneiform inscription was placed. The inscription also curses anyone who tries to deface...

A pottery jar with three painted representations of the ankh sign with 2 arms holding 2 was scepters. From the New Kingdom of Egypt, Ramesside Period, 1292-1069 BCE. The British Museum, London.

This silver jar has a long tube-shaped spout and a long neck. Similar spouted and pouring vessels were depicted in Sumerian banquet/feast scenes. Early Dynastic Period, circa 2600 BCE. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Southern Mesopotamia...

This partially broken jar dates back to the Hellenistic period, 323-30 BCE. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).