ANOTHER LARGE GROUP OF PERSIAN POTTERY VESSELS, comprising a single-handled footed beaker with dark brown linear and triangular decoration -- 3.7/8 in. (9.7 cm.) high; a deep walled bowl on tripod feet with friezes of orange triangles, cross-hatched diamonds and bands of semicircles -- 8.3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high; a globular jar with dark brown shoulder decoration of three water birds, some restoration -- 3.1 8in. (7.9 cm.) high, all early 2nd millennium B.C.; another jar with orange-brown crossed circles between linear fan-motifs -- 4.3/8 in. (11 cm.) high, 8th-7th Century B.C.; six other vessels -- 11 in. (28 cm.) high max, all 1st millennium B.C.; a Luristan bronze dagger blade with midrib; a bronze socketed spear-head -- both 12.1/8 in. (30.6 cm.) long max., late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.5; and a fragmentary Greek terracotta head -- 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) high, 5th Century B.C. (13)

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ANOTHER LARGE GROUP OF PERSIAN POTTERY VESSELS, comprising a single-handled footed beaker with dark brown linear and triangular decoration -- 3.7/8 in. (9.7 cm.) high; a deep walled bowl on tripod feet with friezes of orange triangles, cross-hatched diamonds and bands of semicircles -- 8.3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high; a globular jar with dark brown shoulder decoration of three water birds, some restoration -- 3.1 8in. (7.9 cm.) high, all early 2nd millennium B.C.; another jar with orange-brown crossed circles between linear fan-motifs -- 4.3/8 in. (11 cm.) high, 8th-7th Century B.C.; six other vessels -- 11 in. (28 cm.) high max, all 1st millennium B.C.; a Luristan bronze dagger blade with midrib; a bronze socketed spear-head -- both 12.1/8 in. (30.6 cm.) long max., late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.5; and a fragmentary Greek terracotta head -- 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) high, 5th Century B.C. (13)

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