Jomon Ritual Pottery Vessel

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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These ancient ceramics are decorated with cord markings. They gave the Jomon period, (13,00-500 BCE) its name; Jomon means "cord-marked". A stick was wrapped with braided cord and then rolled over the surface of the vessels to decorate them. Most of the posts seem to have been for cooking or storage. From about 2500 BCE, ceramics known as "flame pots" were produced in what is now Niigata prefecture. They have dramatic flaring rims and were probably used in rituals. Earthenware. From Japan. 13,500 to 500 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

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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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