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Pottery Basin from Akkadian period
This large pottery basin was decorated with a human face and dates back to the Akkadian period, 2350-2156 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

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Philistine Pottery Sherd
Following their settlement in the Levantine coast at the beginning of 12 century BCE, the Philistines began to produce a local variant of the Mycenaean pottery known as "Mycenaean IIIC1B". Initially, this was quite simple in its designs and...

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Pottery Jar from Ninevite V Period
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...

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Pottery from the Amarneh Cemetery at Til Barsip
Much of the known pottery from the Euphrates region comes from tombs, often in large cemeteries attached to settlement sites. The tombs are of a variety of types, but most typically they consist of rock-cut or stone-built subterranean chambers...

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Pottery Bottle from Sutton Hoo
This bottle is the only piece of pottery from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was made on a wheel, like Frankish pottery; early Anglo-Saxon pottery was typically handmade. Unglazed and therefore porous, it was only suitable for viscous liquids...

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The Style & Regional Differences of Seljuk Minarets in Persia
Under the Seljuk rule, Persia gained a period of economic and cultural prosperity. The innovative techniques of the Seljuk period and style in architecture and the arts had a strong influence on later artistic developments. Seljuk art is...
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Moche Head [Pottery Vessel]
Portrait head of a Moche man. Peru, Moche Culture, 1st to 7th century CE. Fired clay.
Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Amorite pottery juglet
Amorite, about 2400-2000 BC From the Middle Euphrates region, Syria This juglet, with its applied figurine, is pierced at the base and may have been a strainer. Alternatively it could have been used a sprinkler, by clamping a thumb over...

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Majiayao Chinese Pottery
This is a single-loop-handled pot from the Gansu Province of China; it dates back to the Majiayao Period, circa 3400 to 2000 BCE. Cyrus Tang Hall of China exhibit in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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