Painted Body Sherd

Nuzi
Kirkuk, Iraq
Central Mesopotamia

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Ubaid Period (5000-4000 BCE)

Fine vegetal and sand-tempered ware with a thin painted band across the middle

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Semitic Museum

42.19.7917

Geography

Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Near East

Archaeology

Not on view

Provenance

Excavated at Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe) by the Harvard-Baghdad School Expedition, 1927-1931; Semitic Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1942.

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