Jug, pottery; bridged beak-spouted jug with twisted basket handle; flaring rim; rounded body, and flat slightly concave base; a small “animal head” with protruding eyes balances a vertical strap handle; pain red-brown; design on body shows four ibex and one human figure framed in “hanging kites”; ladder patters on body and sides of spout and strap. Core: pale orange buff with grey grits; smoothed and perhaps self-slipped above lower body; hand made.
Collection place:
Loristan Province, Northwest Iran
Culture or time period:
Iron Age
Collector:
Bruno A. Schiro
Collection date:
before 1965
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Jugs (vessels)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
9-16947b is an extra spout that was perhaps found inside the jug. It does not belong to the jug and the card makes no mention of it. Proper museum practice would call for a different number.