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 |