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| 08-Sep-2012 | Dick Osseman |
Terracotta vessel (probably a rhyton) shaped like a double headed duck.
Grey paste, dark grey slip. Brightly burnished. Length: 31½ cm; height: 20 cm.
Hittite, from Hattuşa/Boğazköy (Lower city). 14th century BC .
Rhyton = a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk, or else poured in some ceremony such as libation.
Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Land of Civilizations, Turkey’ – Catalogue of the Fukuoka Exhibition (Japan), 1985.
| Full EXIF Info | |
| Date/Time | 08-Sep-2012 16:20:05 |
| Make | Nikon |
| Model | NIKON D4 |
| Flash Used | No |
| Focal Length | 62 mm |
| Exposure Time | 1/160 sec |
| Aperture | f/6.3 |
| ISO Equivalent | 4000 |
| Exposure Bias | -0.67 |
| White Balance | 0 |
| Metering Mode | matrix (5) |
| JPEG Quality | fine (4) |
| Exposure Program | aperture priority (3) |
| Focus Distance | |
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