Bactrian Decorated Stone Vessel. 3rd-2nd millennium B.C. Drum-shaped with squared rim, sidewall with reserved decoration in three registers, hatched panels to the rim above stepped geometric forms above vertical ribbing. Cf. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p.326, for similar. 305 grams, 85 mm wide (3 3/8 in.). [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website] Acquired before 1983. Ex London gallery, 1990s.