Stone Conical Vessel

Item

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