Glazed jar 2, Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE. 2nd C BCE

Green glazed vessels such as this vase with ornamental handles were imported from Southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). The lower parts of the handles sometimes end in knobs, or hands / paws. They appear to have been popular in SE-Arabia (UAE and Oman). Several of these were deposited as burial goods in tombs at Mleiha (Sharjah, UAE). They can be generally dated from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century AD. This fragmentary vessel was discovered in 2013 in a plundered tomb at the Mleiha graveyard area AV zone Q (excavation nr. ML.13/P.P.QC.25) and was restaured by Sharjah Archaeology Authority. 771 photos. Completely processed (aligned, scaled, modeled, cleaned, simplified, unwrapped, textured, meshed) in Reality Capture. B. Overlaet, E. Haerinck, B. De Prez, P. Pincé, L. Van Goethem, P. Monsieur (2018). Preliminary Report on the 2014 Belgian Excavations at Mleiha area AV, Sharjah (UAE), Annual Sharjah Archaeology 15, p. 39, Fig. 7, bottom left.