Askos; Legless “bird” with front spout, knobs, single handle arched from neck to bodu, no foot, spout cut away. Incised linear decoration, red polished surface. Tip of spout broken.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Cyprus
Culture or time period:
Early Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1900 BC) and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 1900–1600 BC)
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Askoi
Accession date:
1906
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Loans:
S1952-1953 #7: Los Angeles County Fair (July 28, 1952–December 15, 1952), S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), and S1971-1972 #62: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (January 10, 1972–April 4, 1972)