White Painted Askos

White Painted Askos

Description:

Pottery askos in White Painted Ware; piriform body with a flat base and a loop handle on the top; animal protome at one end and a broken, spouted mouth opposite; made of buff clay with a buff slip and black painted decoration consisiting of latticed diamonds and parallel lines.


Dimensions: Height: 12.80 centimetres


Object Type: askos


Ware: White Painted Ware


Series: White Painted V (SCE type XIIId)


Techniques: painted

Period:

Middle Bronze Age III

Date:

1750 - 1650 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1982,0726.8