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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Ankara pictures >> Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum >> Assyrian Colonies period > Twin ceremonial vessel
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Twin ceremonial vessel

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Small rhyton. Polished earthenware; height 5½ cm, both openings: 3½ cm diameter.
From the Karum (Assyrian trade settlement) of Kaneş (= Kültepe, near Kayseri), 19th or 18th 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.


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