"Wine Jar" pottery jar, restricted, carinated; found in fragments. Label: "Reconstructed storage jar. The jar is one of a series of jars found sunken into the floor along an interior wall of a "kitchen" in a well-preserved Neolithic house at HF Tepe in NW Iran. A reddish residue found inside the jar tested positive for wine and terebinth tree resin. The jar had a capacity of approximately 9 liters (2.5 gallons). It is the oldest known wine storage container in the world."
Cut with tall straight sides flaring slightly from a flat base. Orange paste with fine grit temper. Thick walled. Exterior has matte cream slip, decorated with thick lustrous red paint. Filled in "scallops" painted around rim, 5 bands of irregularly painted zig-zags/scallops below. Solidly painted around base with scallops in reserve.Painted
A black-topped red ware jar in the shape of a bolti fish. When the jar is turned on its side the dorsal fin is on the top, the mouth open and 2 bumps above the mouth for the eyes.Black Top Ware