Rhyton with the Forepart of a Horse

2nd half 1st century BCE-1st century CE (Late Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)

9 cm 12 cm

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The low-relief grape bunches, leaves, and vines on the upper portion of this rhyton reference the wine that the vessel would have held. The lower portion is in the shape of a protome (the foreparts) of a horse, possibly in movement, with head turned and raised, its mouth sligh...

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40033
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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from ""near Aleppo""]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by purchase, 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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