YORTAN RED TERRACOTTA TRIPOD JUG

YORTAN RED TERRACOTTA TRIPOD JUG

Beaked jug with globular body on tripod feet, loop handle, cutaway spout with flanged rim. red-brown slip, burnished

Ex priv. coll. G.O., Netherlands, acq. Tefaf 2006; before, priv. coll. H. B., Germany, 1980s – 1990s
H. 17,5 cm. Intact

Early bronze Age, Western Anatolia, Yortan, mid 3rd mill. BC

Cf. T. Kamil, Yortan Cementery in the Early Bronze Age of Western Anatolia, Oxford 1082, pp.96-98 (shape IX), fig. 45 no. 167