Askos
- Museum number:
- 8-4594
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21080004594
- Alternate number:
- 53 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.208
- Description:
- 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.
- Donor:
- Alfred Emerson
- Collection place:
- Cyprus
- Culture or time period:
- Early Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 2300–1900 BC) and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (ca. 1900–1600 BC)
- Collector:
- Alfred Emerson
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Askoi
- Accession date:
- 1906
- Department:
- Classical Mediterranean
- Loans:
- S1971-1972 #62: Cantor Arts Center (Stanford Univ.) (January 10, 1972–April 4, 1972)
- Legacy documentation:
-