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Zeh-Kalout is located at western Jazmouriyan in Roudbar, Kerman Province. Due to several reasons such as suitable environmental condition appropriate climate, and rich water supplies this area has been a favorable location for human settlement from pre-historic times through contemporary period. Recorded items from Zeh-Kalout depict its strategic commercial and economic significance in various periods. The potteries are one of the most important cultural materials that have been found in the following research. Comparing this pottery with similar items reveals the relationships between this area and the surrounding Cultures including Boushehr, Fars, Sistan, and the eastern satrapies of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf, and Oman. The Present research describes, classifies, and morphologies the historical Potteries of Zeh-Kalout based on the cultural discoveries(Pottery), and archeological document historical Pottery work of Zeh-Kalout are generally plain and without patterns. They are made from a mineral combination of sand. They are divided into three groups: bowls, urns, and jars and has a long relationship with adjacent cultures.

Significant evidence of the lustre has been discovered during the excavation and restoration of the historical Arg-e Bam. 24 samples of these lustres are kept in the pottery bank and Exhibition of the Arg Bam. There are the following questions about them: what are the characteristic features of the lustrewares in the pottery bank and exhibition of the Arg-e Bam? Where is the production center of these lustrewares based on laboratory results? What local pottery traditions have existed in the production of lustreware in Kerman? After classification and typology of the lustrewares, 10 pieces have been chosen as the samples to perform elemental analysis of the body and glaze by the micro-PIXE method. The results of the elemental analysis of the paste and glaze indicated that these samples are of local origin and their raw materials are supplied from mines in Bam, Jiroft, or Kerman and produced in the same area. Therefore, the variety that can be seen in the color, pattern, and paste of these lustrewares is not due to their production in several centers in Iran, but due to production in different periods from the early to the late Islamic centuries in several local workshops in Kerman, Jiroft, or Bam.

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