3rd-2nd millennium B.C. Carved with squat, vertical sidewall and everted rim, frieze of entwined snakes with opposed heads between raised bands around the body. 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.881 grams, 17 cm (6 3/4 in.). Acquired from a French gallery in 1982; thence by descent. The stone is likely chlorite.