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Geometric design and stamp ornament.Detail of a black earthenware vessel from Sopron,Hungary. Overall height: 41,5 cm See also 07-01-03/15,16;05-01-06/53,54.
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Geometric design and stamp ornament.Detail of a black earthenware vessel from...

Painted bowl, Sialk III period, around 4.000 BCE. Abstract ornaments and a human figure with bird-like head. The Sialk period is contemporry with th Ubaid and Uruk cultures of mesopotamia to the west. Excavated by E. Herzfield at Tall-i Bakun, southern Iran. ANE 128622
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Painted bowl, Sialk III period, around 4.000 BCE. Abstract ornaments and a human...

Painted cramic vase, Bronze Age, 1500 BCE.Tripod-footed pot with chequer-board design. The pattern resembles designs, possibly inspired by contemporary textiles, found on Early Iron Age pottery. Acquired by Sir Marc Aurel Stein at Chigha Sabz in the Rumishkan area of southern Luristan, Iran. ANE 131072
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Painted cramic vase, Bronze Age, 1500 BCE.Tripod-footed pot with chequer-board d...

Glass jar, Mesopotamian, from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq, possibly Poenician, 750-550 BCE. The jar was cast, probably by the lost wax technique, and then ground and polished. ANE 91461
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Glass jar, Mesopotamian, from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq, possibly Po...

Painted jar in the form of a female figure, Anatolian Chalcolotic, around 5000 BCE. Striped clay jar, similar to a type of pottery found at Hacilar,Turkey. The potters at this site produced high-quality wares, but by the beginning of the fifth millenium BCE Hacilar had been abandoned and with the end of the settlement came the end of the fine pottery tradition. ANE, 134707
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Painted jar in the form of a female figure, Anatolian Chalcolotic, around 5000 B...

Black slipped and burnished jug in the shape of a bird, from Turkey, Yortan culture, around 2500 BCE. Jugs of this type are found in every burial of that date in Western Anatolia. From the cemetery at Yortan, western Turkey, used for burials between 2700 and 2500 BCE. ANE, 13405
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Black slipped and burnished jug in the shape of a bird, from Turkey, Yortan cult...

Human depiction in the form of a lid handle. Elongated neck with a proportionally small head and a beak-like nose. Clay; from Ljubimec, Haskovo, Bulgaria. Height: 6,8cm
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Human depiction in the form of a lid handle. Elongated neck with a proportionall...

Prehistoric clay vessel with a facial depiction. Early Middle-Neolithic; from Eggendorf am Walde; Lower Austria. Height: 6,5cm
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Prehistoric clay vessel with a facial depiction. Early Middle-Neolithic; from E...

Pilgrim bottle from Syria, around 1330-1350. The shape of the bottle echoes the leather water flasks used by medieval travellers, however it was not intended to be slung from the saddle of a horse, but probably made for sale to a pilgrim to the Holy Land,seeking containers for their mementoes, as the contents (bones of saints, earth or water from sacred sites) remained safe and visible. The richly coloured enamels and gilding hide the rather poor quality of the thick,bubbly glass. OA 1869.1-20.3
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Pilgrim bottle from Syria, around 1330-1350. The shape of the bottle echoes the...

The Vase vesovali, from Khurasan (Afghanistan) around 1200. Decorated with complex atsrological imagery.Twelve roundels around the bowl each contain the personificaion of a planet with the sign of the zodia representing its day or night house. The figure drawing water from a well is Saturn in his night house Aquarius, the figure riding a ram is Mars in his night house Aries. OA, 1950.7-25.1
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The Vase vesovali, from Khurasan (Afghanistan) around 1200. Decorated with compl...

Young man with golden cup Around 1610; Iran, Isfahan Ink, white and gold; 16,50cm x 8,30cm OA 7136
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Young man with golden cup Around 1610; Iran, Isfahan Ink, white and gold; 16,5...

Hades and Persephone in a temple-like building. Detail from the "Underworld Crater", Italiot, around 350 BCE
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Hades and Persephone in a temple-like building. Detail from the "Underwo...