A BACTRIAN BRONZE SPOUTED JAR, on wide circular flat foot tapering up towards a wide concave rim with long spout angled upwards, the body decorated in relief with a broad band of ten volutes, alternately rising up with incised chevrons or inverted with hatched and plain stripes, bordered above by a band of dotted and plain triangles and below by encircling chevrons, circa second half of 2nd millennium B.C.

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A BACTRIAN BRONZE SPOUTED JAR, on wide circular flat foot tapering up towards a wide concave rim with long spout angled upwards, the body decorated in relief with a broad band of ten volutes, alternately rising up with incised chevrons or inverted with hatched and plain stripes, bordered above by a band of dotted and plain triangles and below by encircling chevrons, circa second half of 2nd millennium B.C.
5in. (14.2cm.) high, 8¼in. (21cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. P. Amiet, Elam, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1966, p. 208, no. 154 for a similar vase

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