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Red-Figure Cow-Head Rhyton (Drinking Horn): Seated Woman

Red-Figure Cow-Head Rhyton (Drinking Horn): Seated Woman

c. 340 BCE
ceramic
Diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); Overall: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1982.41
Location: 102D Pre-Roman

Did You Know?

The cow-head rhyton was the most popular of all Apulian animal-head rhyta.

Description

Rhyta (drinking horns) in the forms of animal heads were popular ceramic products in Apulia c. 350-320 BC. Mold-made heads were attached to wheel-made bowls, with separately made handles (plus ears and horns, for this cow). On the bowl, a seated woman holds a helmet and spear, with a shield nearby; she may represent Athena, although the helmet differs from her usual type and she does not appear to wear her snaky aegis (breastplate).
  • ?-1982
    André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1982-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 1002930 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
    André Emmerich Gallery. Classical Antiquities. New York: André Emmerich Gallery, Inc, 1981. no. 52
    Boger, Ann C. Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink : [Exhibition] the Cleveland Museum of Art, July 26-October 9, 1983. [Cleveland]: Extensions Division, Dept. of Art History and Education, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983. p. 50, no. 2
    "Annual Report for 1982." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 6 (1983). p. 50, no. 2 www.jstor.org
    Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. pp. 54-55, PL.(1846) 100.1-3
  • Consuming Passions: The Art of Food and Drink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 26-October 9, 1983).
    The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
    Classical Antiquities, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (November 14-December 18, 1981).
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