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Mesopotamian offering pot, 3500-3400 BC

Mesopotamian offering pot, 3500-3400 BC Terracotta, covered with plaster and inscriptions of red ochre.

This vase with four legs and four compartments was probably an offering vase that could contain the four then known cereals: barley, wheat, emmer wheat and spelt but
It could also be used to represent offerings towards the four horizons, North, South, East and West, out of concern for universalism and future prosperity.

The vase, in terracotta, is covered with plaster as was customary at the time (which aligns with skulls covered in plaster) and a double line of signs in red ochre on the base and on the top of its periphery, which seems to date it from before the invention of writing (- 3350).

This vase represents a moving testimony of the first religious manifestations of our distant ancestors.

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Dimensions:
Diameter: 15,5 cm
Height: 9, 5 cm

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