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Silver situla with swinging handles

Silver situla with swinging handles





Artist : Anonymous

Date : VIth century B.C.

Material : Silver
Acquisition : Bequest of Walter C. Baker (1971)
Pail
Item 136 on 197
Greek Antiquities
Container

Vitrine : V07

Area related
Grèce antique Est (Greece)

Description   

Said to be from de Troad. The shape and decoration of this situla find parallels in the art of the Achaemenids, a Persian dynasty that conquered the most of Asia Minor during the sixth century B.C.
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