Flask

Hemispherical, with flattened side, expressed neck with slightly bent crown rectangular in section and and collar at transition to neck, closer to flat side on two edges there are tiny looplike handles, the wall is decorated by concentric lines which are smoothed down to flat side. On flat side closer to neck are drawn “n” - shaped sign and Parthian- Aramaic inscription: “Tiriburz” (“High owing to Tir deity”). Translation of V.A.Livshits.
Date: 4th-2nd с. B.C.
Material: Ceramics.
Technique: Potter’s wheel, riffling.
Sizes: height 26 cm, neck diameter 7 cm, diameter on flat side 23 cm.
Findspot:Chirikrabat complex, monument 1, Karmakshy district, Kyzylorda region.