PLATO,
PREHISTORIAN
 During
the last half of the sixth millennium B.C., the influence of
the Halafian culture spread from Mesopotamia and the Iranian
frontiers westward to Syria, parts of Anatolia, and possibly
Greece. The vessel above and those pictured in the margins of
the following pages are hand-built products of the Halafian
potters at Arpachiyah (Iraq), whose skilfully fired ceramics
far surpassed the later wheel-made pottery of Babylonia. Framed
by checkered patterns or bands of light and dark triangles,
the centrepieces of these shallow bowls usually form either
a multipetaled rosette or some variation of the cross. (after
Mallowan and Rose, 1935)
From Plato Prehistorian by Mary Settegast
Ancient
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