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This is a stone slab incised with a repeated array of concentric irregular squares. A line of 3 slabs bearing this decoration was found in a wall inside "Structure 2" at Wadi al-Hammeh 27. They were supported by a backing of rubble, with...

Terracotta figurine of the goddess on a large couch (cline), leaning on her left elbow. This was the typical position for dining at a banquet (symposium), which was derived from the Greek tradition and was adopted by the Romans. The hole...

Hard greystone statue of an Ammonite king. Both hands of this male figure are clenched. He wears an Egyptian-style atef crown and a shawl over a garment in the Aramaic-Syrian tradition. Both legs stand on a pedestal of the same stone type...

Carrot-shaped bottle, burnished and decorated with horizontal bands. This characteristic type was probably made for special liquids, such as cosmetics or medicinal oils. Locally made in an Assyrian form, such bottles link up with the general...

Large jar built up with coils of clay and then trimmed upside down on the wheel. Its base is tapered making the form similar to a plumb-bob when hanged by the handles. This type of jar was commonly associated with administrative and trade...

Atarghatis is seated on a throne and a large head of the bearded Hadad, sculpted in limestone in the Oriental Syrian style, is beside her. Both came from a group of sculptures that decorated and adorned the Nabataean temple at Khirbet et-Tannur...

Marble portrait of the Roman Emperor who reigned from 161 to 180 CE. His statues were raised in cities across the Roman Empire; this head was found in the exedra of Qasr al-Bint Temple at Petra. An inscription reveals that it was set there...

Plaster figurines were usually made in human and animal forms. Most of them depicted a female figure with raised arms, dressed in a long garment, and often decorated with a small mirror; very few had depicted male figures. These figurines...

This vessel belongs to a ceramic tradition known as "black-on-red" ware, the most ubiquitous of the Iron Age's Cypro-Phoenician exports. Iron Age II, 1000-539 BCE. From Amman, Jordan. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).

Although known by this term, the pottery is not technically glazed. It evolved from the Greek Attic "Red-on-Black" pottery, but the images of heroes and gods that made the Attic vases famous were replaced by vegetal and simple geometric motifs...