Small Jar
c. 2000 BCE
Description
Round-bottomed vessel with carinated shoulder and flaring rim; buff clay with dark brown paint: banded and and triangle decoration on the shoulder. Recomposed from fragments.
Dimensions
5.9 x 7 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Ernst Herzfeld, Iran, (by 1927), gift; to Kurt H. Weil, Montclair, NJ (1927-1992), by descent; to Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, New York (1992-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
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