This thin-walled pottery bowl was made over 6000 years ago at a pre-historic site known as Tall-i Bakun, just 3km south of what later became the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Persepolis, Iran. [1024×1280]
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This thin-walled pottery bowl was made over 6000 years ago at a pre-historic site known as Tall-i Bakun, just 3km south of what later became the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire in Persepolis, Iran. [1024×1280]
by Party_Judgment5780
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Inhabited between 5500-3500 BC, the site’s upper level reveals a complex of nicely aligned buildings consisting of rectangular houses and warehouses with common walls. The wealth and variety of these items, along with the evidence of large workshop areas, indicate the existence of a local industry connected by trade to distant regions from which goods like shells, copper, steatite, lapis lazuli and turquoise were procured. 16 cm tall and 27 cm wide at the rim, this bowl depicts three standing or dancing figures with stylised heads and raised hands, each separated by a bold geometric design. The figures are identical, with subtle variations that, when the bowl is rotated, create the impression of a single moving figure.
Looked like Mimbres ware at first glance
Oh, I want to see every detail, this is interesting!!