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Wine Jar
5400-5000 BCE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Wine Jar
- Date Created: 5400-5000 BCE
- Location Created: Hajji Firuz, Iran
- Physical Dimensions: 32 x 33.4 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Ceramic
- Object Number: 69-12-15
- Descriptive Note: Wine Jar pottery jar, restricted, carinated; found in fragments. 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. 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 one of the oldest known wine storage containers in the world.
- Credit Line: The Hasanlu Project (Hajji Firuz); Mary M. Voight, 1969
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