A Persian grey pottery animal rhyton, the long-snouted animal standing with head stretching forwards, a small spout in its mouth, with short-necked mouth and handle on its back; and a Luristan bronze beaker on wide circular shallow-footed base, the concave sides decorated with a chased frieze of three wild goats walking in profile to the left, two of them grazing, an encircling band of guilloche above and half circles below, a single handle riveted to one side, repaired -- 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) and 3 5/8in., (9.1cm.) high respectively, both early 1st millennium B.C. (2)

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A Persian grey pottery animal rhyton, the long-snouted animal standing with head stretching forwards, a small spout in its mouth, with short-necked mouth and handle on its back; and a Luristan bronze beaker on wide circular shallow-footed base, the concave sides decorated with a chased frieze of three wild goats walking in profile to the left, two of them grazing, an encircling band of guilloche above and half circles below, a single handle riveted to one side, repaired -- 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) and 3 5/8in., (9.1cm.) high respectively, both early 1st millennium B.C. (2)

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Item one: a Thermoluminescence Analysis Report from the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology accompanies this item (ref. 381a33).

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