Daunian askos - Painted terracotta

Askos with annular handle and wide lip.
Terracotta. Height 14,8 cm.
6th-5th century B.C. Daunia.
Intact. Very well preserved.

The typical shape of the askos was largely used during the Daunian period. But their geometrical motives can be different: the “Daunian II”, especially in Canossa, introduces more colour (large bands of brown and orange beige) and new patterns of motives. The presence of two of them (the barbed triangle and the concentric circle) precises the datation: between 550 and 400 B.C.