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Proto-White Painted Askos, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot
Proto-White Painted Askos, Late Bronze Age III Cypriot, c. 1100–1000 BC. British Museum, 1884,1006.2.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Late Bronze Age III

Proto-White Painted Askos

Pottery zoomorphic askos with a spout and basket handle in Proto-White Painted ware; wheel-made; squat body on a raised, slightly concave base; short concave neck and rounded, everted rim; wide curved spout on shoulder; double basket handle arching over the rim, two pierced lugs on each side of the body and another in the form of a bird's tail at the back opposite the spout; orange-buff clay and drab slip decorated with bands of black paint. Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres Object Type: askos Ware: Proto-White Painted Techniques: painted; slipped; wheel-made

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
Proto-White Painted ware
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsAskos
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Place of production
Cyprus
Date
1100 - 1000 BC

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Cyprus

Identifiers

Accession no.
1884,1006.2, British Museum · Museum record

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