CVATypes of Pottery

 
6000-2500 BC

   
Egyptian Predynastic beaker from Naqada.
H. 25.3cm.
Desert sheep and African goats in pink on a red ground
About 4500-4000 BC


Ashmolean Museum 1895.482
Gift of Flinders Petrie
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Proto-Elamite beaker from Susa.
H. 20.3 cm. Geometric patterns in brown on a light ground.
About 3500 BC

Ashmolean Museum. Loan From Musée du Louvre, thanks to Edmond Pottier

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East  

Aegean spherical pyxis from the Cycldic island of Melos. H. 10.2 cm.
Incised herringbone patterns.

Ashmolean Museum AE 435
Gift of Arthur Evans

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Aegean  

European (Otomani, Hungary) one-handled drinking cup with ridges on body.
H. 10 cm. to handle.
About 2500 BC

Ashmolean Museum 1951.499a.
From the excavations of Gordon Childe

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Europe