Incised Sherd
Nuzi
Kirkuk, Iraq
Central Mesopotamia
about 4500 BCE
Terracotta, medium coarse vegetal-tempered, incised ware (Dalma impressed ware)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Semitic Museum
42.19.7926
Geography
Place Made: Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, West Asia, Asia
Period
5000-4000 BCE
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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