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no-ranian or orath Harappan atria (Fig. 5; ab 2)

Dfinit ranian or no-ranian atria is aso rar at aar. An isoat scrap

of at 3 inniu Back-on-Gry (Eir Gry) pottry fro outhast ran

was foun (not iustrat), a typ aso foun in th aui Arabian portion of

th Eary Diun sphr, at arut an at Abqai3‫ﻭ‬5)).

wo bakrs ay rat to ranian craic copxs; nithr can b

assign to a aar pottry prio. h first (Fig. 5.1) has aborat

coration consisng of a row of bisct chvrons abov a in of

iaons, bow which a possib pa af otif is foun. Loos corativ

paras ar foun in th no-ranian borrans, whrc rows of chvrons

ar coon (36), as wi as ins of iaoris, though ths tn to b

cross-hatch, not fi in (37), his vss was not xain by th author,

an it is possib that it is an unusua ocay-a vss, with no-ranian

infunc coration.

Anothr (Fig. 5.2) is in a fin grcy warc, with ark gry pat. An ١no-ranian

para for th shap an th pattrn of wto horizonta ins at th ri, abov

a otif of iaons in rsv coration, is foun on a bakr at Kui (38),

though this is in a r san-tpr war.

Both can b broay copar to Hajun an Anrsn's Oa'aat yps E8
(paint bakrs with orath Harappan parals) an E9 (a iscanous
catgory of paint bakrs an othr vsss with Eastrn affinitis) (39).
hr ar siiaritis btwn th shaps an coration of th two
xaps fro aar with orath Harappan bakrs, for xap in th sight
-shap an th paint on th insi of th ri sn on Fig. 5.2 (40).

Aitiona,y a crtain cass of ocay-a gobt ay hav bn infunc

by no-ranian anor Cntra Asian prototyps (Fig. 5.3). his wh-a

typ (aar typ 44) corrspons to Qaa'at a-Bahrian typ B62, which

Hajun an Anrsn biv ay b an iitation of vsss in thir Eastrn

raition (41), No xact para for th shap an coration was foun for

this aar goblt, though various corat vsss fro Bahrain an th

aui ainan ar coparab in forrn (42). Eizabth During Casprs has

a a strong cas for such gobts bing originay inspir by vsss of