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Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)
Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)
Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegA_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegA_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegB_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegB_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegD_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegD_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegE_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegE_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegF_bw.jpg)

Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegF_bw.jpg)

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Askos in the Form of a Quadruped

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

CULTURES Possibly Cypriot; possibly Cappadocian; possibly North Syrian
MEDIUM Terracotta, pigment
DATES ca. 1100-800 B.C.E.
DIMENSIONS 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm)  (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 16.638
CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Possibly Cypriot. Askos in the Form of a Quadruped, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)
IMAGE CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009
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Possibly Cypriot. <em>Askos in the Form of a Quadruped</em>, ca. 1100-800 B.C.E. Terracotta, pigment, 4 15/16 x 2 11/16 x 4 3/4 in. (12.6 x 6.8 x 12 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.638. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.638_print_NegC_bw.jpg)

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