CVATypes of Pottery



2500 - 1050 BC
   

Sumerian vase with incised patterns on the neck and shoulder, and a stylised figure of a female in added clay, on the handle, and incised patterns on the body. From Cemetery A at Kish. H. 41 cm.

Ashmolean Museum 1925.210

Photo of Vase
 

British (Dorchester, near Oxford) beaker with incised patterns. H. 22.5 cm.
About 2000 BC (Late Neolithic)

Ashmolean Museum 1950.395

Photo of Vase
 

Cretan bridge-spouted vessel from Knossos.
H. 15.5cm. Spiky wreath pattern and band of dots painted in red and white on black ground.
About 2000BC (Middle Minoan)

Ashmolean Museum AE 912
Gift of Arthur Evans

Photo of Vase
Aegean
(Crete)
 
Mycenaean kylix (cup) from Rhodes
H. 17.5 cm. The bowl of the two-handled cup is decorated with stylised florals above groups of fine lines.
About 1350-1300 BC (Late Mycenaean)


Ashmolean 1924.68
Gift of Sir John Beazley
Photo of Vase
Greece
(Mycenae)