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Ceramic Mugs
Ceramic Mugs

​Parsi-Parlo

Site Details, Pottery Style & Pottery Details

Site Name

​Parsi-Parlo

Site Details

The Neolithic site of Parsi-Parlo, excavated by A.A. Ashraf (1990), is situated on the northern slope of the Terrace I at a height of 12 m from the river bed of Kamla on its right bank. Excavation at Parsi-Parlo during 1982-83, revealed about 50 to 100 cm thick cultural deposit. 

Pottery emerges in Phase II, which represents the second layer 

Pottery Style

​1. Square-grid pottery
2. honeycomb (web) pottery
3. beater impressed pottery

Pottery Style Details

  • a small number of potsherds represents square-grid and honey-comb (web) beater-impressed pottery; 

  • Poor lavigation; high percentage of gritty particles; 

  • bowls with featureless rim and constricted neck, lipped pots with globular bodies made for culinary purposes; 

  • potsherds discovered at this site of Taba are coarse in texture and these were handmade and comprise plain (thick and coarse) ware, stamped (grid pattern) ware and irregular corded ware.

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