Urartian boot-shaped burnished pottery rhyton fragment

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The lower part of a rare boot-shaped burnished pottery rhyton with prominent ankles and a characteristic up-turned point at the front. The leg of the boot would have ascended to a flared cone providing a lip for drinking.

Culture
Urartu, 8th to 7th Century BC

Size
13.8 x 9.5 cms.

Condition
Fragment as shown

Provenance
Ex. private collection, USA; acquired 1976-1993

For a similar complete vessel, please see: Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthus M Sackler Collection, Trudy S Kawami, New York 1992, page 150.

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