early 1st millennium B.C.
Height x max. diameter: 11.4 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Source: Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA [1]
The Iron Age people of the Caspian coastal region of northwest Iran left no written records, but their richly furnished tombs attest to their power and influence. They also produced distinctive red and gray-ware pottery vessels, usually referred to as Amlash, after the town where they first appeared in the 1950s and 1960s, or Marlik, where the first scientifically excavated examples came to light.
