Stone Conical Vessel

Item

Title

Stone Conical Vessel

Inventory Number

A0414

Description

Top-shaped sandstone vessel w hemispherical finial at bottom & round-truncated conical neck w small central aperture. Incised decoration decorating central section of body: two h lines defining base of shoulder below which tall slender metopes separated by vertical depressions; each metope bordered on long sides by vertical incisions & decorated in center w v band of contiguous circles.

State of Preservation

Surface worn to point of blunting incisions, some chipped patches.

Height

14.6 cm

Max Diameter

16.8 cm

Base Diameter

3.7 cm

Color

2.5Y 7/4 (pale yellow).

Type

Material