CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

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AN EARLY PARTHIAN POTTERY RAM VESSEL
CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The rounded body with long neck, incised decoration down its length, hollow muzzle forming the pouring spout, applied dots for eyes and ears, the curling horns now missing, cylindrical aperture emerging from its back, arched handle decorated with central rib, incised lines and applied dots at top and bottom, on three short tapering legs
14 in. (35.5 cm.) long

來源

English private collection, acquired in Lugano, Switzerland, 1967.

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A Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, Oxford, dated December 1983 (no. 381j43) accompanies this lot.
Cf. T. S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, p. 225, nos 162 and 163 for similar.