White Painted Bird Askos

White Painted Bird Askos

Description:

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

Period:

Geometric II

Date:

900 - 750 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kourion

Accession Number:

1982,0729.295