askos;
flask
- Museum number
- 1982,0729.195
- Description
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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: crudely executed lattice patterns along the back with a large ladder motif on the underside and handle, bands on the spout and inside the mouth; surface very eroded on the underside and rim of spout is chipped.
- Production date
- 900BC-750BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 14.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The number '259' in blue pencil on the underside of the vessel seems to refer to the original findspot. See Bailey, Op. Ath. VI (1965), pp. 5-13 for details of the Hake-Kitchener excavations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1982,0729.195
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 350-1883 (V&A number)
