Base Ring Bull Rhyton

Base Ring Bull Rhyton

Description:

Pottery Base Ring II ware bull rhyton; hand-made; lower face forms tubular spout with hole through mouth; applied pellets for eyes, added horns and ears; circular hole for mouth of vessel on the back of bull's head with strap handle from rim to mid back; dewlap and tail moulded in relief; decorated with painted white stripes down body and head; traces of thin, matt mottled red-brown slip; fabric medium brown.


Dimensions: Height: 10.40 centimetres; Length: 13 centimetres; Width: 4.90 centimetres


Object Type: rhyton


Ware: Base Ring Ware


Series: Base Ring II


Techniques: painted; slipped; handmade; pierced

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1450 - 1100 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Enkomi

Accession Number:

1897,0401.958