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Large buff earthenware vessel with a piriform body terminating in a wide opening, the lower part of the body instead shaped as a caprid protome, his cylindrical snout open, eyes and ears applied, ornated horns joint at the top, the two front legs bent downwards. A small bulging perforation on the chest would have been used to sprinkle the water out.
Similar vessels have been tentatively attributed to the Parthian period and an analogous vessel with zoomorphic terminal can be observed in Washington DC, in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection of Near Eastern Art.
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