Detail of an Iranian Jar with a Painted Eagle in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

Jar with painted eagle

Period: Early Bronze Age

Date: ca. 2500–1900 B.C.

Geography: Western Iran

Medium: Ceramic, paint

Dimensions: 12.09 in. (30.71 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Vessel

Credit Line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988

Accession Number: 1988.102.26

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/3000...

Jars like this were made and traded throughout western Iran during the late third millennium BC in continuation of an earlier ceramic tradition from the Mesopotamian plain.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.