Ubaid Jar with Geometric Decoration in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Ubaid pot with geometric decoration
Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, Late Ubaid Period, 4500–4000 B.C.

Dimensions: Height x diamter: 27 x 28 cm (10 5/8 x 11 in.)

Medium or Technique: Pottery

Classification: Vessels

Accession Number: 1986.30

Painted pot with carinated body and tall neck. Zigzag decoration in dark brown paint on cream-colored slip. The Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia is called the Ubaid Period, after a distinctive pottery found at the site of Tell al-Ubaid, near Ur in southern Iraq.

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