Stone Conical Vessel

Title: Stone Conical Vessel
Inventory Number: A0414
Date Acquired: 1988
Source: Rex Toomey Gift
Provenance: Turkey
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: vessel
Material: fired clay