Proto-White Painted Askos

Proto-White Painted Askos

Description:

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

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1100 - 1000 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Cyprus

Accession Number:

1884,1006.2