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PRETTY POTTERY. The pottery produced at Qurayyah is traditionally known as Midianite Pottery or Qurayyah Painted Ware (QPW). In the Iron Age, the camel became a favorite decorative element, before giving way to purely geometric designs during the pottery’s final stage, which ended in the fourth century BCE.