STANDING CASE D. Bull’s head rhyton

Accession Number CA 1884
Year 900 - 800 BCE
Dimensions 19.5 cm x 17.3 cm
Medium pottery
Location Louvre
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Bull’s head rhyton from Amisos (also known as Samsun) on the Anatolian Black Sea coast. Although Evans regarded it as a Late Bronze Age rhyton because of its decoration, it is now dated to the Iron Age.

Photograph © 1993 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Hervé Lewandowski.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, pp. 658-659, fig. 422

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, pp. 764-767, fig. 747a

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 15