Cleveland Museum of Art

Jar with Four Ibex

Date

c. 2800–2500 BCE

Medium

ceramic with black slip

Culture

Pakistan, probably Quetta, Indus Valley Civilization

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. The long-horned ibex is at home in the Himalaya mountains, the source of the Indus River.

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