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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 8800-6900 BC
Baja, northwest of Petra
These fragments are from a larger painting, most of which was lost through time. It was discovered in a room containing a burial chamber, within a complex overlooking a rock face, but the function is difficult to fathom.
The forms may be considered abstract as we cannot explain them. They were painted on the plaster that covered the interior of the room, using red pigmenf extracted from iron ore veins local to the Petra region.
© Text: The Jordan Museum
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Exhibits from the beginnings of sedentariness (12,500 BC), until the Late Chalcolithic. Part of the visual informative tour through The Jordan Museum in Amman.
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