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Boot-shaped vessel
Near Eastern, Iranian
Iron Age
10th–9th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Pottery with orange slip
Credit Line
Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund
Accession Number1980.8
CollectionsAsia, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsVessels
DescriptionFrom Northwest Iran, Caspian coastal region. Shoes or boots with upturned toes were a feature of dress in Anatolia and Northwest Iran since remote antiquity. They are common both in Hittite art and in that of Iron Age Iran. Vessels like this one, buried with the dead, may -- like a magical shoe or carpet -- have been thought to facilitate the journey of the dead in the afterlife.
ProvenanceBy 1980: with Malekzadhe Mokry, Isak Antiques, New York; 1980: purchased from Malekzadhe Mokry, Isak Antiques, New York.
(Accession date: January 16, 1980)
(Accession date: January 16, 1980)