Description:

Ancient Near East / Asia Minor, Anatolia, Yortan culture, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of petite circular form with a protruding lower rim drilled with a quartet of suspension holes. The discoid lid exhibits a quartet of protruding conical nodules spaced evenly around the rim as well as a central cone that doubles as a handle, and both lid and body were covered with black slip before being fired and then incised with intricate linear motifs. Size (w/ lid): 2.25" Diameter x 2.2" H (5.7 cm x 5.6 cm)

Provenance: ex-Royal Athena Galleries, New York City, New York, USA; ex-Gorny & Mosch, Munich 2008; ex-collection of Clemens Holzmeister (1887-1983), acquired between 1927 and 1954

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#187758

  • Condition: Restoration to areas of lid and vessel base as shown. Minor abrasions and fading to dark pigment, otherwise in great condition. Nice preservation to incised motifs.

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