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Ram's head rhyton hand-painted, British Museum, 21.5 cm, 12 cm diameter, 0.9 kg weight

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Ram's head rhyton, original in the British Museum London, the following link will take you directly to the museum website

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1873-0820-272

A rhyton (Greek for ‘drinking horn’), a sacrificial or drinking vessel,

usually made of metal or baked clay, frequently funnel-shaped, often in the shape of an animal or human head, with a neck and handle, was used for sacred and profane purposes.

Drink offerings (Greek sponde, hence ‘donation’, Latin libatio) were usually offered together with other, mostly bloody sacrifices and also in the cult of the dead. The liquids offered were usually wine, water, milk and oil. The libation was poured at the beginning and end of the sacrifice and onto the burning sacrificial animals.

In the profane sphere, too, a libation of each drink was poured out at the beginning, after the meal.

The kottabos is probably the opposite of the libation. The symposion (Greek for ‘feast’), a drink or drinking party, was usually organised after a shared meal. The kottabos, a cheerful Greek social game in which the rest of the wine from the drinking vessel had to be thrown so skilfully against a disc lying loosely on a stand that it fell down noisily, was often included. Or a small bowl floating in a pool of water had to be hit and thus sunk.

Syriskos (Ancient Greek Συρίσκος, ‘the little Syrian’) was an Attic potter and red-figure vase painter who worked in Athens around 490 to 470/60 BC and painted this ram's head rhyton. The drinking rim depicts four bearded men stretched out on cushions at a symposium (banquet).

Ram's head rhyton, 470 BC, British Museum, inventory no. 1873,0820.272,
Replica hand-painted and -potted

A seal on the handle bears the inscription "MUSEUM COPY", reverse "HAND MADE IN GREECE".

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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday, April 27, 2025.