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Neolithic Cremation Urn

Terracotta

1500/2400 BC

Swat Valley, Pakistan

Height: 15″, 38 cm, Diameter: 40″, 102 cm

Oxford Authentication No.106z2

The Urn has a broad shouldered ovoid form that tapers down to a small flat base. The face is undecorated and anthropomorphized into the form of a human face with pierced eyes and mouth in applied relief beneath a flaring rim.