Glazed ceramic jar, Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE

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Green glazed ceramic jar from Mleiha in Sharjah, UAE, dates back to the 1st Century CE and holds Catalogie No. ML46180. It has been featured in Sophie Méry and Michel Mouton's work (2018:66, upper left figure) as well as J.Mª Córdoba's publication (2016:120, Figure 146). A total of 636 photos were taken to document this artifact, which was fully processed using Reality Capture software. The processing involved aligning, scaling, modeling, cleaning, simplifying, unwrapping, texturing, and meshing the object. This artifact is described in Sophie Méry and Michel Mouton's publication (2018), "French archaeological expedition in the United Arab Emirates: Excavations at Mleiha 2011," which was featured in Annual Sharjah Archaeology, Issue 13, pages 55-70. It is also mentioned in J.Mª Córdoba's book, "La era de Mleiha: navegantes y caravanas antes del Islam" (2016), pages 83-130, specifically in Figure 92. The artifact was showcased in the exhibition "EN LOS CONFINES DE ORIENTE PRÓXIMO: El hallazgo moderno del país de Magán," held at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional from April 18 to May 29, 2016, curated by J.Mª Córdoba Zoilo with co-curators C. del Cerro Linares, Mª C. Pérez Díe, and E. Pons Mellado.