Small Jar
2nd millennium BCE
Description
Small jar with a carinated shoulder, its body flaring toward the rounded base; buff clay fired reddish in parts, dark brown banded decoration on the shoulder and a dark brown band around the lip of vessel.
Dimensions
6.4 x 7.3 cm (2 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Ernst Herzfeld, Iran, (by 1927), gift; to Kurt H. Weil, Montclair, NJ (1927-1992), by descent; to Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, New York (1992-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums.
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