Jar
3rd - 7th century
| Place of origin |
Fragment from a storage jar, unglazed earthenware body of a sandy pinkish-buff clay, the side of the jar is impressed twice on the exterior with a circular stamp depicting an ibex facing right, perhaps to form a running border motif.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, wheel thrown, stamped |
| Brief description | Fragment from a storage jar, earthenware, impressed twice with a circular stamp depicting an ibex motif: Iraq (Samarra), probably 3rd - 7th century. |
| Physical description | Fragment from a storage jar, unglazed earthenware body of a sandy pinkish-buff clay, the side of the jar is impressed twice on the exterior with a circular stamp depicting an ibex facing right, perhaps to form a running border motif. |
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| Credit line | The research, cataloguing and digitisation of the V&A's Samarra collection has been made possible by a pilot project grant from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (2013). |
| Bibliographic reference | Sarre, Friedrich, Ernst Herzfeld and Hans Arnold, Die Keramik von Samarra. Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra II, Forschungen zur islamischen Kunst Abt. 2, Bd. 2 (Berlin: Verlag von D. Reimer, 1925). |
| Other number | I-N 985 - Herzfeld's red inventory number on object |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.625-1922 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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