Jar with Four Ibex
c. 2800–2500 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic with black slip
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.2 x 23 cm (4 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Pakistan, probably Quetta, Indus Valley Civilization
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Large numbers of ceramic vessels decorated with black slip have been found among the sophisticated urban settlements of South Asia's protohistoric Indus Valley civilization. The walls of this jar are so thin that it must have been created on a potter's wheel.The four male ibex have two curving horns of exaggerated length, and three hairs under the chin.
