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vessels are often of a very crude construction. Comparable examples can be found
at Ur (Woolley 1965). Both Adams (1965) and Gibson (1972) use these same forms as
Kassite diagnostics in Iraq, and therefore I have relied on these same indicators for
Bahrain.
Later Dilmun, Tylos, and the Islamic Era

Tlie stratified ceramics of the post Barbar period have appeared in a variety of
articles by Bibby but the most readily accessible descriptions appear in his Looking
for Dilmun (1969). Two important soundings were made by Bibby along a none

Figure 54: First- and Second-Millennium Diagnostic Pottery (Bibby 1969, 1971)

Kassite Period (City ID)
a. Vessel with tall body and short neck; sand-tempered,"caramel-colored" ware.
b. Small cover (?) for above vessel; sand-tempered,"caramel-colored" ware.
c. Vessel with short body and tall neck; sand-tempered, "caramel-colored" ware.
Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Period (City IV)

d. TTiin bowl with out-turned rim and round base; ware not noted.
e. TTiin bowl with out-turned rim and small flat base; ware not noted.
f. Thin, shallow bowl with slightly in-turned rim; ware not noted.
g- Thin jar with small out-turned rim; ware not noted. A similar
jar was observed in collections with a red burnished exterior slip
on light brown ware.
h. Small bowl with slightly in-turned rim; grey-white glaze; ware
not noted.
i. Small thin bowls with short vertical rims; glaze and ware not noted
for Bahrain, but is a red-brown ware at TTiaj where this vessel
is described as Type 3. (Bibby 1973)
j- Small bowl with ring base; red-painted and burnished, ware not
noted.

Hellenistic Period (City V)

k. Small bowl with flat base, black-painted surface, ware not noted.
1. Bowl with base made up of three stump feet; glaze and ware not
noted.
m. Glazed jar with short neck and two small round handles; color and
ware not noted.