Goblet decorated with quadrupeds ca. early 4th millennium B.C. This goblet has a flat base, straight sides, and an everted rim. It is made of buff clay, with painted brown decorations, including crosshatching and checkerboard patterns. These decorations also feature an animal with a stylized body, a long neck, a drooping tail, and crescent-shaped ears that extend to the rim. Wheel lines on the interior indicate that it was made on a potters wheel.The shape and decoration of this beaker resembles that of vessels excavated at Tepe Sialk, near Kashan in central Iran, though there are no exact parallels for the unusual shape of the animals horns. The site of Sialk is spread over two mounds. The northern mound was inhabited from ca. 6000 to 4000 B.C., and the southern mound, where similar pottery to this was found, from ca. 4000 B.C. until 2500 B.C., when the site abandoned for nearly a millennium.The animal on this beaker, possibly some sort of canine, cannot be identified with any speci