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Start Over Collection place Middle East Collector Alfred Emerson Culture or time period Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-3252, described as Large Cypriote amphora
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.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Askos, accession number 8-4595, described as Askos; “Bird” with cutaway spout, three knobs, single handle from neck to shoulder, “tail”, three legs (not part of original and made from plaster), red polished surface with incised linear decoration. Spout and Tail broken and mended.
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 8-3291, described as Askos, duck-shaped body, three legs, strap basket handle from neck to back, cylindrical neck, open mouth, two small projections one on each side representing wings, high back-ridge from base neck to small fan-shaped tail. Painted decoration. Breakage and subsequent restoration.
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 8-3269, described as Bowl; With Plastic Decoration; shallow hemispherical bowl with basket handle, false zoomorphic spout (ibex head) which communicates with a channel within the rim; on interior of bowl a speckled lizard (frog?) with open mouth. Painted geometric decoration. Surface abrasion, crack at handle base and ibex horns, also along interior of bowl, chip from low footed base. Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 8-281, described as Bowl: large, deep conical shape; very lopsided; no feet, uneven base. Four pierced holes, two in lug handle at rim and two in side of bowl (2.2 cm. below rim) and aligned with handle. Handle on opposite side of rim broken off. Appliqued and impressed design near rim. Surface encrusted.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 8-3293, described as Bowl, small size, hemispherical shape, incised linear decoration and red polished surface. One suspension hole. Broken and subsequent mending. Rim chipped, surface abrasion.
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.

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