AMLASH TERRACOTTA ZEBU SPOUTED VESSEL

AMLASH TERRACOTTA ZEBU SPOUTED VESSEL

Standing on four short legs with pronounced hump turning into spouted and horned head with small bull’s head on top.

Ex priv. coll. Sam Dubiner (1914-1993), Israel, acq. 1954-1958
Dim. 19 x 24,5 cm. Intact

c. 1200 – 1000 BC, South Caspian Region

Cf. W. Seipel, 7000 Jahre Perische Kunst, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 2000, pp. 156-159, Kat. Nr. 83; G. Körlin-T.
Stöllner, 5500 Jahre Geschichte in Ton, Bochum 2008, p. 76, no. 1; Artefact, 150 Jaar Rijksmuseum van Oudheden 1818-1968, Leiden 1968, p.25, pl. 20