Water Pot
9th century (made)
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Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam. Flat disk foot with a globular body and expanding neck with four handles connecting the neck and shoulder. Decorated with bands of vertical and diagonal lines on the neck, of intersecting diamonds, intersecting arcades, diamond diaper, and diagonal herring-bone patterns, all in horizontal bands, on the body. Inside the base of the neck is a filter with decorative apertures cut at the join.
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Materials and techniques | Fritware, moulded |
Brief description | Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam, probably Syria, 9th century. |
Physical description | Water pot of fritware, moulded with relief decoration in two halves which are joined in a horizontal seam. Flat disk foot with a globular body and expanding neck with four handles connecting the neck and shoulder. Decorated with bands of vertical and diagonal lines on the neck, of intersecting diamonds, intersecting arcades, diamond diaper, and diagonal herring-bone patterns, all in horizontal bands, on the body. Inside the base of the neck is a filter with decorative apertures cut at the join. |
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Credit line | Given on behalf of the Archaeological Expedition to North Syria, by Sir Leonard Woolley |
Object history | From the excavations at Al Mina, near Antioch. |
Production | Excavated at al-Mina |
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Accession number | C.252-1937 |
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Record created | January 29, 2003 |
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