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Description: | This simple shallow dish is made of terracotta, a type of unglazed, reddish-brown baked clay. It was made in Mesopotamia, the area of the Middle East now covered by Iraq and northern Syria. The dish is undecorated, except for small dash marks on the exterior. There is a circular pattern inside, which suggests that the dish was made on a potter's wheel. The top of the bowl has a raised lip, which may originally have been used to hold a lid in place. The dish was probably for general use in the home.
SHALLOW DISH, undecorated terracotta | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Home life Food Decorative arts Archaeology | Temporal: | c 1000BC | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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