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Start Over Collection place Middle East Culture or time period Ancient Near East Loans S1971-1972 #62: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (January 10, 1972–April 4, 1972)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Askos, accession number 8-4594, described as Askos; Legless “bird” with front spout, knobs, single handle arched from neck to bodu, no foot, spout cut away. Incised linear decoration, red polished surface. Tip of spout broken.
Hearst Museum object titled Askos, accession number 8-263, described as Askos; Legless, globular, “duck” shaped body; open, tubular side spout; stag head, with flat face, conical nose; antlers in front of top opening; high basket handle from rim to back; rounded knob-like tail; three button-like bosses. Incised linear decoration on body and handle consists of short, parallel slanting strokes & groups of three dots. Tip broken and missing from left antler, most of right antler missing, surface abrasion.
Hearst Museum object titled Askos, accession number 8-264, described as Askos: “Duck”-shaped vessel with pedestal foot, slotted front and rear; oval body, broad back, short cylindrical neck with cut-away spout; slightly curved handle from rim to back; goiter-like projection at front of neck base. Incised linear decoration all over body, on neck, and handle; of parallel lines, strokes and zig-zags. Tip of spout broken and missing, tail broken, part missing, horizontal crack on rim right side. Surface abrasion. Preserved.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 8-272, described as Bowl; hemispherical body, two tubular side spouts with flared rims, unpierced lug on rim above spouts, two pierced holes in rim on side opposite spouts. Undecorated except for minor incised design around rim.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 8-274, described as Bowl; hemispherical body; tubular side spout, vertical handle (loop) from rim to 2 cm below rim. Undecorated. Rim chipped, also end of spout.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl-ladle, accession number 8-273, described as Bowl-ladle; hemispherical body, vertical loop handle, set diagonally. Some encrustation on exterior of body and on handle. Undecorated.
Hearst Museum object titled Bull figurine, accession number 8-261, described as Figurine (Bull), Fat globular body with wide tubular mouth opening; pierced holes for eyes and nostrils, two horns (one broken off); four legs with knees, hocks and cloven hoof indicated. Tail an extension of ridge along back, ridge has one lug hole; male sex indicated. Incised linear decoration flanking ridge and around neck.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Ellipsoid jar, accession number 8-267b, described as Bowl: (”Pyxis”), Oblong shaped, incurving rim, pierced lug at either side near top, no handle. Incised linear decoration of parallel zig-zags and straight lines. Surface badly worn with only faint traces of dark red slip.
Hearst Museum object titled Female figurine, accession number 8-3281, described as Figurine, female, nude. "Bird-like" face, frontal schematized form with long neck, loop arms with hands at waist. Necklace, fingers, pubic triangle indicated by incised lines. Eyes, breasts, and navel indicated by applied pellets of clay. Ears perforated for earrings (now lost). Flat head, beak like nose. Height: 20.9 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Figural vessels, accession number 8-3282, described as Two joined horn-shaped vessels; curved and pointed cow’s horns with cylindrical bodies and flaring rims. Joined by two bridges ( one at rim and one slightly below). Incised linear decoration in horizontal patterns (zigzag or diagonal strokes within horizontal lines). Breakage and subsequent mending. Two holes on one side of upper bridge.

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