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Ornament
Period: Early Bronze Age
Date: ca. late 3rd millennium B.C.
Geography: Mesopotamia, Tell Taya
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: 0.16 in. (0.41 cm)
Classification: Faience
Provenance: 1967, excavated by Julian Reade, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1972, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations.
Strainer
Period: Early Bronze Age
Date: ca. late 3rd millennium B.C.
Geography: Mesopotamia, Tell Taya
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 2.17 in. (5.51 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Provenance: 1967, excavated by Julian Reade, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1972, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations.
Tortoise figurine
Period: Early Bronze Age
Date: ca. late 3rd millennium B.C.
Geography: Mesopotamia, Tell Taya
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 0.91 x 1.3 x 2.01 in. (2.31 x 3.3 x 5.11 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Provenance: 1967, excavated by Julian Reade, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq; acquired by the Museum in 1972, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations.
