Painted Pottery Jar from Arqub az-Zahr

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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Jar decorated in red, like a burnished slip or groups of lines The spouts applied to some jars may have served as stands for dipper juglets. Early Bronze Age, 3600-3100 BCE. From Arqub az-Zahr, Jordan. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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