Architecture fragment
FindspotRayy, Iran
Object PlaceRayy, Iran
Medium/TechniqueGlazed baked clay
DimensionsLength x width: 7.3 × 6.5 cm (2 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Credit LineUniversity Museum—M. F. A. Persian Expedition
Accession number39.347
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Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
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Located near Tehran, the capital of Iran, the city of Rayy was inhabited nearly continuously from the third millennium B.C.E. From the seventh through the sixteenth centuries, Rayy was an important political, scholarly, and artistic center of the early and medieval Islamic empires that ruled in the region. The city's strategic location also made it a nexus for trade. While the medieval city is no longer extant, Rayy's material culture illustrates the city's position as an economic, scientific, and literary cross-roads.
Provenance1936, excavated at Rayy (Chal Turkhan, in present-day Iran), by the University Museum-M.F.A. Persian Expedition; 1939, assigned to the MFA as part of the division of excavated objects. (Accession Date: January 12, 1939)
960–1279
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2500–100 B.C.
about 2600–1900 B.C.
1261–63 A.D./ 659–661 A.H.
1262 A.D./ 660 A.H.
about 1250