SIGILLATE SHERD:BOWL RIM WITH THEATRICAL MASK

1. Fine sherd with orange body, clear glaze with green and dark brown streaks, flat base. 2. Sherd with clear glaze with green and dark brown streaks, flat base. 3. Early lead gl...

The interior of this bowl is divided into eight equal sections by lines, embellished with dots and twining tendrils, that spring from triangular arabesques and terminate with pairs...

Except for the brown rim, all the decoration on this small, round dish is painted in shades of cobalt blue. A rotund bird with backward-turning head neatly fills the interior. Arou...

Body sherd of cup or bowl. Intentional mottled surface, with two bands of red-orange paint around body, and two more white lines below. Interior monochrome brown-black with red d...

Figural designs on polychrome ceramics offer tantalizing and often puzzling glimpses into the complex society of the Samanid realm, now divided between northeastern Iran and Uzbeki...

A pair of inward-facing birds seeming to revolve counterclockwise occupies the walls in this bowl. Their wings are formed of split leaves articulated in reserve, and their tails re...

The inscription painted around the rim of this fragmentary bowl has thus far defied reading. It is possible that the many sherds from which the bowl was reconstructed before Norma ...

Reddish-buff micaceous fabric with worn metallic slip misfired to shades of black, brown, and red. Mold-made with attached wheel thrown rim. At the base of the bowl's exterior is a...