Pottery askos
- Accession Number
- GR4
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Egypt and its Neighbours
- Object Type
- Receptacle/vessel, Askos
- Material
- Pottery
- Provenance
- Cyprus
- Measurements
- Height: 82mm | Width: 35mm | Depth: 137mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Bull/cow
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- Description
-
A hand-made pottery askos in the form of a quadruped (likely a bull) with a spouted mouth in place of a head. The animal has short stumpy legs, which are fused at the front and back, a short tail, and an arching strap handle (now broken) on the back. It is made of buff unpainted clay, and has been broken at the neck and repaired at an unknown date. These vessels, which were produced in Cyprus, would have been used for holding liquids, such as oils. Typologically, it dates to the Late Cypriot I Period (c. 1600–1400 BCE). It was purchased by Wellcome in 1919 from the Laurence Cesnola Collection.
- Bibliography
-
Gill in JHS 1996 no 41.
- Wellcome Number
- A26374
- Other Identity
- W229b (previous number no longer in use)
- Previous Owners
- Laurence Cesnola Collection | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 07 Nov 2022