rhyton

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Object Type: rhyton
Museum number: 1887,0502.85
Description: Three-legged pottery rhyton in the form of a bird, with a pointed oval body and an arched loop handle on top. Hole at either end, one enclosed by a cup. White slipped with fugitive painted lines across handle.
Cultures/periods: Sub-Mycenaean; Proto-Geometric
Production date: 1060BC-950BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Assarlik, tomb O
Materials: pottery
Technique: painted; slipped
Dimensions: Height: 17.50 centimetres; Length: 24.80 centimetres
Curator's comments: fig. 19, p. 74 Paton, W.R. (1887). Excavations in Caria. JHS 8: 64-82
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (A1102); Guggisberg 1996 / Frühgriechische Tierkeramik: Zur Entwicklung und Bedeutung der Tiergefäße und der hohlen Tierfiguren in der späten Bronze und frühen Eisenzeit (ca. 1600-700 V. Chr.) (no. 451)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: bird
Acquisition name: Donated by: W R Paton
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1887,0502.85
Conservation: Treatment: 25 Jan 2017

Free entry