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The ancient Persian tradition of drinking or pouring wine from rhyta (drinking horns) was eagerly adopted in Classical Greece – despite the great political enmity between Greece and Persia. In the Hellenistic Age, rhyta in different materials remained popular. This example from Campania terminates in a highly naturalistic head of a roe deer (19.5 cm in length; ca. 3rd cent. BCE; APM inv. no. 787).
Image courtesy of the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.
Museum, A. P. (2020, February 15). Deer Rhyton. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/11911/deer-rhyton/
Museum, Allard P. "Deer Rhyton." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified February 15, 2020. https://www.ancient.eu/image/11911/deer-rhyton/.
Museum, Allard P. "Deer Rhyton." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 15 Feb 2020. Web. 10 Apr 2021.
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