Beak-spouted Jug of the Yortan Culture

Culture: Anatolia

Period: 3500-2600 B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 18.4 cm high

Price: 480 Euro

Ref: 6583

Provenance: Austrian private collection Prof. Josef Mairitsch (1938-1994) with the inventory number 15. Acquired between 1960 and the early 1980s. Thence in the family estate. With a collection note.

Condition: Rim with visible wear, otherwise intact.

Description: Jug of grey-black clay with a spherical at the bottom slightly flattened body, which is attributed to the Western Anatolian Yortan culture. On the shoulder sits a steeply rising, cylindrical spout, with a diagonally cut out rim. Around the centre of the spout starts the semi-circular handle, which reaches to the shoulder. In the front around the spout are three tapered decorative spikes.