4th-3rd millennium BC. A ceramic ewer with metope-style painted decoration as a frieze of triglyphs of hatching and straight and curved lines. See Amiran, R., Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age, 1970, pp.160-165. 843 grams, 20cm (8"). From an important family collection formed 1950-1990s. [No Reserve] Fine condition.