Spouted jar and stand ca. 1050-800 B.C. Iran This biconical pitcher has a squat round body with a flat base. A pointed spout with an angled protrusion below it emerges from one side of the body. The spout is attached to the rim by a small bridge. It sits on a hollow cylindrical stand with a ring base and a collar at the top. The sides of the cylinder are open in horizontal strips. Both the pitcher and the stand are made of burnished grey clay. Both were made on a potters wheel. The pitcher was probably made in two halves that were joined together, with the spout added later.This pitcher and its stand were excavated from a grave at Hasanlu, a large settlement site in northwestern Iran. During the Iron Age Hasanlu was one of the largest and most powerful towns in Iran, and probably controlled much of the Ushnu-Solduz valley until its destruction ca. 800 B.C. by the Urartians. Like many in western Iran in this period, the people of Hasanlu made ceramic pitchers like this one with globula