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© HERITAGE COMMISSION AND MARTA LUCIANI, QURAYYAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT

PRETTY POTTERY. The pottery produced at Qurayyah is traditionally known as Midianite Pottery or Qurayyah Painted Ware (QPW). The earliest type (called Standard QPW, represented by the fragment with a horned ibex surrounded by basket-like decoration, appeared in the 17th–15th centuries BCE and is similar to contemporary assemblages from the southern Levant and northern Arabia.