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Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Anatolia, Yortan culture, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery jug with a spherical body with a tapered shoulder, a squat neck with a tall, beaked spout, and an arching ring handle. The blackware surface is stone-burnished with nice luster in some areas, and intersecting groups of incised lines decorate the exterior of the body. Ancient Western Anatolia is famous for a number of large ruins, most notably Troy (Hisarlik), but many mysteries remain. The Yortan culture is known through a burial site in the valley of Bakir Cai that has not been well-studied. 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. Size: 6.125" L x 5.8" W x 8.875" H (15.6 cm x 14.7 cm x 22.5 cm)

Provenance: private Alta Dena, California, USA collection, acquired in 1973

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#183094

Chips and abrasions commensurate with age, with lightening and fading to black pigment and linear motifs, and light earthen deposits, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to overall form, and linear motifs are still visible in several areas.