The pottery of ancient Tell Halaf of Mesopotamia and my ceramics

Mar 26, 2015
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The love affair between me and the ancient pottery of Tell Halaf started when a friend of mine, a fellow potter and a university lecturer lent me some of his books about ancient Mesopotamia and the history of archaeological excavations there. It was then that I began a serious study of arguably the finest pottery in the Neolithic produced.

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