Rhyton terminating in a horned lion
Unknown Artist
ca. 4th–3rd century BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
Height: 12.00 in. (30.48 cm); Diameter of rim: 5.00 in. (12.70 cm); Height of protome: 5.50 in. (13.97 cm); Width at paws: 2.91 in. (7.40 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Vessels
Culture & Period
Achaemenid or Seleucid · late Achaemenid–early Seleucid
Department
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1981
Accession Number
1981.133
Tags
Lions