Bidspirit auction | Bactrian carved schist stone container,

Bactrian carved schist stone container, 2000-4000 BC - Bactrian carved schist stone container, 2000-4000 BC; Ca. 3rd Millennium BC. A flat-bottomed cylindrical vessel skillfully carved from schist stone. The vessel features concave walls with delicately incised linear designs and a broad, circular opening. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was, along with the Indo-Greek Kingdom, the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world, covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 256 to 125 BC. It was centered in the north of present-day Afghanistan. Length: 30mm. Width: 48mm; Weight: 65g; Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990's.