Storage jar

Details

• Title

  Storage jar

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq (place of creation)

  Asia › Iraq (Hira, mound III) (place of excavation)

• Date

  8th century AD (AD 701 - 800)
  Abbasid Period (AD 750 - 1258)
  8th century AD (AD 701 - 800)

• Material and technique

  earthenware, with moulded decoration under a turquoise glaze

• Object type

  container › vessel › jar

• Dimensions

  46 cm (height)
  34 cm max. approx. (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1978.2250

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