Spouted vessel ca. 1050-800 B.C. Iran This pitcher has a squat, globular body, a ring base, and a slightly flaring rim. A small handle connects the rim and neck on one side; on the other a spout rises vertically from the body of the pitcher before extending outward horizontally. The spout is attached to the rim by a small bridge. The pitcher is made of burnished grey clay and decorated with oblique fluting spaced at wide intervals. It was made on a potters wheel, perhaps in two halves, with the spout and handle added later.This pitcher was 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 globular bodies and long spouts.It is not clear what this pitcher was used