Description:

Ancient Near-east, Persian, Syria, Raqqa, ca. 8th/9th century CE. Extremely rare pottery scraffito/graffito vessel. Pouring vesself buff colored pottery with rounded applied handle attached at rim. The vessel is covered from rim to base with script from the Qur'an. Approximately 14 lines of text was presumably written with a reed pen in Kufic and may have been a way to broadcast the Muslim ideology onto Christians who resided in this area of Syria, or could have been an attribution of faith carried to the grave. Size: 4.25" W x 7.75" H (10.8 cm x 19.7 cm)

A similar example found at Raqqa was exhibited at the Raqqa Archaeological Museum, now mostly destroyed from the 14 year-long Syrian civil war.

Tested using Thermoluminescent (TL) Technology and confirmed to be age described. Report accompanies this piece.

Provenance: private Thornton, Colorado, USA collection, ex collection of Karl Stirner, Easton, PA before 2016.

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  • Condition: - Qur'anic" Chip to vase as shown, areas of wear to pigment and some script at top rewritten in modern times.

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