Ribbed Bowl from Grave 5 at Nuzi
224-651 CE
Description
A hemispherical ribbed bowl. The exterior ribbing begins approximately 2.4 cm below the rim and proceeds to the base of the vessel but does not continue along the bottom, which is concave. The interior is smooth. The bowl was discovered broken, and although the complete profile is preserved, a small fragment of the rim is missing.
Dimensions
9.5 x 10.6 cm (3 3/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Excavated from Grave 5 by the Harvard-Baghdad School Expedition, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq (1929), distributed; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931. Note: The original Field Catalogue number was “29.11.90,” or object 90 found in November, 1929.
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