A Conical-necked Turrine
Eastern Central Europe, Bronze to Iron Age Lusatian Culture, ca. 1300 - 500 B.C.
Fired clay
Height: 16.2 cm
Diameter: 10.5 cm (mouth)
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A pot with steeply ascending conical neck. Offset, rounded shoulder, conically tapering lower section. Flat base. Two handles on opposite sides at the transition of the neck to the shoulder. Shoulder decorated with two encircling grooves and a row of fine notches. The neck is encircled by groups of three or four dots. The shoulder is further adorned by four shallow depressions on opposite sides with standing arches above them (German: “Hofbuckel”). Carefully smoothed and graphitized surface with typical metallic sheen. Below it, especially on the lower part of the vessel, a brown coating is visible. Reassembled from several large fragments, surface partially corroded.
PROVENANCE
Formerly priv. coll. Dr. Ulrich Wisler (b. 1926 - d. 2010), Biel-Benken, Switzerland, formed between 1950-1990.
NOTE
E. Wesely-Arents, Studien zu Chronologie und Besiedlung der Lausitzer Kultur in Sachsen auf Grundlage des Gräberfeldes von Liebersee. Studien zur Lausitzerkultur III (Langenweissbach 2011) 57-61, "Kegelhalsterrinen mit Handhaben". V. Vokolek, Gräberfeld der Urnenfelderkultur von Skalice/Ostböhmen. Fontes Archaeologici Pragenses 26 (Prague 2002) 117-120, (there termed "Amphora"), 118, illus. 15, Type 4.
