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Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933: II. Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. B. Harden
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Figs, 1 and 2 show a conspectus of the restorable pot-shapes of both plain and glazed ware found in the Sassanian buildings excavated at Kish in 1932-3. Almost all of them come from the SS 7 complex, at an average depth of 2 metres: a few are from SS 6 or SS 8, at a similar depth. They form a group that should prove most valuable for purposes of dating on less well documented sites in Iraq, for it seems most probable that this pottery belongs to the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. The latest coin found with the pots is one of Justinian I (A.D. 527-65).

A. Plain ware. The commonest shapes are the hemispherical and truncated conical bowls which often bear Aramaic incantations; jugs which have ovoid bodies and rounded or pointed bases; jugs with pinched lips and flat bases or base-rings; and large three-handled jars for storing liquids.

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Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933
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IRAQ , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , November 1934 , pp. 124 - 136
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1934

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References

page 129 note 1 This season's excavations were confined to several isolated trial trenches which produced no stratigraphical evidence of any value.

page 131 note 1 Compare Thompson, R. Campbell and Hutchinson, R. W., The Excavations on the Temple of Nabu at Nineveh (Archaeologia, LXXIX, pl. 56, nos. 327-33)Google Scholar; and Thompson, R. C. and Mallowan, M. E. L., The British Museum Excavations at Nineveh 1931-32 (Liverpool Annals XX, 184, ff.)Google Scholar.

page 136 note 1 Woolley, C. L., A North Syrian Cemetery of the Persian Period (Liverpool Annals VII, 121, pl. XXI)Google Scholar.

page 136 note 2 Minns, E. H., Scythians and Greeks, pp. 204, 209, 231 and figs. 99, 107, 136Google Scholar.

page 136 note 3 Perrot, G. and Chipiez, C., History of Art in Phoenicia, II (English ed.), 361, fig. 278Google Scholar.