Rhyton with ram protome. The material is silver. Technique - chasing, engraving. First half of the 4th century BC. Kul-Oba barrow, Kerch Peninsula. Provenance in 1830 from the excavations of P. Dubrux. Initially all-gilded. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Rhyton is a wide funnel-shaped drinking vessel in the form of an animal`s or human`s head lowered down; the vessel was often used in sacred rites of sacrifice or libation of wine in honor of a particular god

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