2nd millennium BC. A very large pottery storage vessel with piriform body, waisted neck and everted rim, painted with a circumferential band of chevrons to the shoulder, each with chevron fill. Cf. Çilingiro?lu, A., The Second Millennium Painted Pottery Tradition of the Van Lake Basin, in Anatolian Studies, vol. 34, 1984, pp.129-139. 16.15 kg, 49.5 cm high (19 1/2"). Acquired before 1990. Property of a Munich collector. Property of an English gentleman. [No Reserve]