Rhyton

Object Details

• Description

  Large, plainware rhyton, with a wide, round mouth, bulbous body, tapering to a thick "neck" and ending in a roughly-formed animal head, possibly a ram. Possibly originally burnished.

• Provenance

  From 1965/1966 to 1995

  Frank and Joan Mount, Alexandria, VA, purchased in Tel Aviv in 1965/1966 [1]

  From 1995

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Frank and Joan Mount in 1995

  Notes:

  [1] This object was purchased by Joan and Frank Mount in Tel Aviv in 1965-66.

  Copies of the original invoices can be found in the accession file (see Provenance Remark 1, Ann C. Gunter, December 5, 1995, in the object record).

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Frank and Joan Mount

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Joan and Frank Mount

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

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• Name

  Mount, Frank and Joan

• Topic

  Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Iron Age II (ca. 1250 - 800 BCE), Iron Age I (ca. 1450 - 1250 BCE), Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)