Golden rhyton from Iran's Achaemenid

[AliAtiyabi]

A rhyton (plural rhytons or, following the Greek plural, rhyta) is a roughly conical container from which fluids were intended to be drunk or to be poured in some ceremony such as libation, or merely at table. They are typically formed in the shape of an animal's head, and were produced over large areas of ancient Eurasia, especially from Persia to the Balkans. Many have an opening at the bottom through which the liquid fell; others did not, and were merely used as drinking cups, with the characteristic that they could not usually be set down on a surface without spilling their contents.

This Rhyton dates back to 2500 years ago.

 

[Takoyaki]

beautiful!

 

[AliAtiyabi]

beautiful!

Thank you Takoyaki.

 

[Chujybear]

takoyaki....
i'm going for lunch now

 

[monk]

a marvelous work. curious to know, how one would stand the vessel without it tipping over.

 

[SamW]

Beautiful work! Makes me wonder if any of our work will survive 2500 years...and admired?

 

[AliAtiyabi]

Beautiful work! Makes me wonder if any of our work will survive 2500 years...and admired?

Thank you Sam, what wonders us as engravers is the tools and techniques they used at the time to create such fantastic works.

 

[AliAtiyabi]

a marvelous work. curious to know, how one would stand the vessel without it tipping over.

Thank you Monk, as a matter of fact the front part under the mouth is not round and it stands laying that part.

 

[monk]

Thank you Monk, as a matter of fact the front part under the mouth is not round and it stands laying that part.

ok, thanks for the info.