Skidding Goat Vase | Ashmolean Museum
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Ashmolean Museum Illustrator Yu Sun brings this dynamic little 5000-year-old vase to life.
This “skidding goat” vase was likely made in Iran c.3500 BCE. Similar jars were made at settlements in mountain valleys that connected Mesopotamia in the west to Iran.
This goat, or ibex, is native to the Zagros Mountains of western Iran and may have been an important symbol for the people of this region. Mountain goats often appear objects like this one.
Perhaps the design of lines and shapes seen across this vase represent mountain peaks surrounding our little skidding goat.
This type of painted pottery decoration was extremely sophisticated and vessels like this may have been used for special occasions.
You can see this vase on display in our Ancient Middle East gallery on the ground floor.
🐐Vase with 'skidding goat' motif, c.3500 BCE, h 12.5 cm. AN1971.980
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