Base Ring Bull Rhyton

Base Ring Bull Rhyton

Description:

Base Ring II pottery rhyton (ritual pouring vessel) in the form of a bull; hand-made; one horn damaged, one ear and one eye missing. Tail tightly to the back of the body. Flat grooved handles on the back near the neck, in front of the handle a round orifice, muzzle with hole for pouring. Clay fired to a greyish core, with a burnished gray slip and added white painted decoration: white tree-motifs on body.


Dimensions: Height: 10.50 centimetres; Length: 13.50 centimetres


Object Type: rhyton


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring II


Techniques: handmade; painted; burnished; slipped

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1200 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Klavdia

Accession Number:

1899,1229.81