rhyton
- Museum number
- 1856,1226.59
- Description
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Red figured pottery rhyton terminating in a ram's head.
Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow; below, egg-moulding; on either side, palmettes. The ram's head is black, the horns and eyes white; inside of ears, mouth, and nostrils purple.
Eros kneeling to left, with hair in a bunch, open beaded cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, beads over right shoulder and round left thigh, and white shoes; in right hand a bunch of grapes and pyxis ornamented with a cross patee, on which are six balls, in left a yellow ball. Before him, a taenia; behind, an ivy-leaf.
- Production date
- 340BC-320BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.25 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G1/wp61/sh7)
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1856,1226.59