Owl-shaped Jar

206 BCE–9 CE Overall: 19 x 11.9 x 13.4 cm (7 1/2 x 4 11/16 x 5 1/4 in.) Source image
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Pottery vessels in the shape of owls were made since Neolithic times and throughout the Bronze age. These jars in the form of vigilant owls may have provided a tomb occupant with grain in the afterlife. However, the meaning of these mysterious birds and the association of the...

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