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Qurayyah Painted Ware, 3200-yr-old ceramics, painted with distinctive black-and-red geometric designs, stylized animals and human figures, may have been an early example of an ancient "brand"

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Creating a brand. Genesis, transformation and diffusion of Qurayyah Painted Ware

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Ancient "brand" Qurayyah Painted Ware QPW 4, formerly known as ‘Midianite Pottery’.

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Credit: Marta Luciani @ Qurayyah Joint Archaeological Project, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Qurayyah Painted Ware, 3200-yr-old ceramics, painted with distinctive black-and-red geometric designs, stylized animals and human figures, may have been an early example of an ancient "brand"

Article URL: https://plos.io/4hkmlXu

Article title: Creating a brand. Genesis, transformation and diffusion of Qurayyah Painted Ware

Author countries: Austria, USA, Australia.

Funding: This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [grant DOI: 10.55776/I6562 available under https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/I6562]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission. -Award by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna “Pottery Production and Exchange Networks in Ancient Arabia and the Near East” (https://hist-kult.univie.ac.at/forschung-und-digitales/forscherinnengruppen/pottery-production-and-exchange-networks-in-ancient-arabia-and-the-near-east/): PI ML -Award by the Holzhausen-Legat of the OeAW “Pottery production and exchange networks in Ancient Arabia” Project no. OSTI000205: PI PF -Award by the Austrian Science Fund FWF under the International WEAVE scheme of the Project ANAPAN, “A New Approach to Pottery of Arabia and its Neighbors. Understanding Technology and Commercial Networks in the Greater Levant”. Project no. I6562: PI ML The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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