Handle of vase
Not on view
This sherd is the remains of a handle for a ceramic vessel, which takes the form of an abstract animal head with large, pellet eyes. It was excavated at Yarim Tepe in northeastern Iran, six miles south of the modern town of Gonbad-e Kavus. Yarim Tepe was a small settlement, inhabited from the Neolithic to the Parthian period, with many interruptions. This sherd probably dates to the first millennium B.C. There is a long tradition in ancient Iranian pottery of making the spouts or handles of vessels in the form of animals.
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