Ca. 3rd Millennium BCA flat-bottomed cylindrical vessel skillfully carved from schist stone. The vessel features concave walls with delicately incised linear designs and a broad, circular opening. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was, along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world, covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 256 to 125 BC. It was centered in the north of present-day Afghanistan.Size: L:30mm / W:48mm ; 65gProvenance: Private UK collection; from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.