Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)
This distinctive ware was produced in the larger area of Canosa from roughly the mid-fourth through the mid-third century B.C. The ample, assertive shape is embellished with finely executed bands of ornament, often vegetal, as well as human and animal figures at the bottom. Motifs framed by pendant tendrils have parallels in Gnathian pottery.
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)
- Period: Hellenistic
- Date: ca. 330–300 BCE
- Culture: Native Italic, Daunian, Canosan
- Medium: Terracotta
- Dimensions: H. 13 1/8 in. (33.4 cm)
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1960
- Object Number: 60.11.8
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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