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title: Amorite pottery juglet
author: Trustees of the British Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/510/amorite-pottery-juglet/
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# Amorite pottery juglet
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/510.jpg)
## Image Caption
[Amorite](https://www.worldhistory.org/amorite/), about 2400-2000 BC From the Middle Euphrates region, [Syria](https://www.worldhistory.org/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 the top when the vessel was filled with liquid, then withdrawing it gently and so releasing the pressure. Much of the Middle Euphrates region now lies beneath the waters of a lake. Between 1963 and 1973 an international rescue mission excavated many sites in the area, which was threatened by flooding as a result of the construction of the Tabqa dam. These excavations revealed a distinctive regional [culture](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/culture/). During the period from about 2400 to 2000 BC, northern [Mesopotamia](https://www.worldhistory.org/Mesopotamia/) and Syria appear to have been dominated by a number of expanding sites. [Mari](https://www.worldhistory.org/mari/) on the Euphrates and Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, south-west of Aleppo) were among the most important. Over 8000 inscribed clay tablets discovered at Ebla show close contact with Mari and indicate that the site wielded extensive political power. Contacts with [cities](https://www.worldhistory.org/city/) in the south of Mesopotamia were also significant. At the end of the third millennium BC King [Sargon](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/sargon/), or [Naram-Sin](https://www.worldhistory.org/Naram-Sin/), who was ruler of Agade, one of these southern cities, campaigned into the north and destroyed Ebla, thus changing the balance of power
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