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White Painted Bird Askos, Geometric II Cypriot
White Painted Bird Askos, Geometric II Cypriot, c. 900–750 BC. British Museum, 1982,0729.295.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Geometric II

White Painted Bird Askos

Pottery askos or flask in White Painted ware; hand-made elliptical body in the form of a bird, pinched together at the prominent central ridge running along the back of the vessel; the clay surface has been smoothed with a tool; narrow spout, with a swelling at the juncture with the body, flaring to a trumpet mouth at one end; arching basket handle in the middle of the back; buff clay and slip, decorated in matt brown-black paint: lattice patterns along the flanks with a ladder motif on the back-ridge and handle, bands on the underside and the spout and rim; a hole has been punched or drilled into the body of the vessel close to the spout. Dimensions: Length: 16.20 centimetres Object Type: askos Ware: White Painted Ware (WP III) Techniques: painted; handmade; slipped

Classification

Object type
Terracotta figure-vessel
Ware
White Painted ware (Iron Age)
Shape
Special and ritual vesselsAskos
Decoration
Painted
Material
Clay
Period
probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
Date
900 - 750 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Kourion

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Collection

British Museum

Provenance

  • Kourion

Identifiers

Accession no.
1982,0729.295, British Museum · Museum record

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