STANDING CASE G. Replica lion’s head rhyton

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.782
Year 1900-1902
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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This is a replica of a marble lion’s head rhyton fragment which was found at Delphi. It is unclear whether it was deposited in the Bronze Age or as part of the later cult.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 833, fig. 549

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 18