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pot

On display
human history
  • Description

    pot, ceramic. Flat base, straight-sided body flares slightly outwards. Sharply angeled shoulder slopes inwards to restricted neck. Short neck, flares outwards, rim rounded. Interior of vessel undecorated. Exterior shoulder and body decorated with red and brown thin stripes around circumference and a central band of vertical stripes separated by rectanguls of zigzag patterns. Red clay coated with cream coloured slip.

    Baluchistan, western Pakistan, dating from before the Indus Valley civilisation circa 4th – 3rd millennia BCE.

  • Place
    Indus Valley/Asia
  • Accession Number
    2004.29.4
  • Accession Date
    19 Apr 2004
  • Other Id

    2004.29.4 (accession number)

  • Department

    Archaeology

  • Display Room

    applied arts west, decorative arts, Ancient Worlds

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  • pot, 2004.29.4, 2004.29.4, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 02 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, 2004.29.4, 2004.29.4, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 02 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • pot, 2004.29.4, 2004.29.4, Photographed by Richard NG, digital, 02 Aug 2017, © Auckland Museum CC BY

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