Body sherd incised with an onager, from Tell es-Sweyhat

An image of Vessel. Body sherd from large buff ware jar, incised with rump, tail and belly of an onager. Find Spot: Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria. Clay, height 0.09 m, width 0.14 m, 2500-2001 B.C. Notes: The onager, also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus) is a large Equid of the family Equidae (horse family) native to Asia.

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Vessel. Body sherd from large buff ware jar, incised with rump, tail and belly of an onager. Find Spot: Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria. Clay, height 0.09 m, width 0.14 m, 2500-2001 B.C. Notes: The onager, also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus) is a large Equid of the family Equidae (horse family) native to Asia.

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Accession Number: ANE.12a.1980
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 116.13kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 125
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:03:19 17:37:31

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animals antiquity ass BC clay donkeys Fitz_ANT fragment horses jar onager rump sherd Syrian tails Turkish

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