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Collections

Drinking Vessel Shaped As a Deer Head1350-800 B.C.

Not on view
Ceramic horse sculpture with long conical body, terra-cotta clay with remnants of white slip, head turned to the left with open mouth
Terracotta rhyton in the form of a horned animal head, with two long curved horns rising from a cylindrical base, surface showing worn reddish-orange slip over pale clay
Title
Drinking Vessel Shaped As a Deer Head
Place Made
Western Iran
Date Made
1350-800 B.C.
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
a) Height: 13 1/2 in. (34.29 cm); b) Height: 7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Alice A. Heeramaneck
Accession Number
M.75.62.27a-b
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Ancient