**Originally Listed At $800**

Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Western Anatolia, Yortan Culture, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished blackware pottery vessel - known as a kernos - with a carinated body resting atop a squat foot. A pair of bowl-shaped spouts projects from the shoulder, a trio of conical nubbins protrude from the front, and a pair of thick suspension loop arch off the verso. The body bears remains of incised linear motifs resembling trees or stacked chevrons. Size: 10.55" Diameter x 10.5" H (26.8 cm x 26.7 cm)

The Yortan culture is known, because of a burial site in the valley of Bakir Cai that has not been well-studied as of yet. Adults and children were buried, crouched, in large terracotta storage containers; around them were placed a great deal of pottery in the form of jugs, jars, and occasionally bowls, much of it blackware just like this piece. An incredibly rare and well-preserved example from a little-known culture!

Provenance: private Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA collection, via inheritance; Leota Furlong Agett Persian Pottery collection, acquired in Tehran, Iran in the early 1960s

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#175666

Repair to one handle on verso, with small chips and very light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor abrasions and softening to incised motifs commensurate with age, with fading to black hues in some areas, and light earthen deposits, otherwise in excellent condition. Incised motifs still visible on body.