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Rhyton

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Description

The rhyton consists of gold plates and a horn-shaped base. The base is reconstructed from fabric saturated with glue and painted. On its upper edge 9 gold plates are attached. They are decorated with a relief image of the head of a griffin-deer and one double one with the image of a boar and the head of a griffin-deer. Holes for fastening to the base were punched along the edges of the plates, in some of them gold nails were preserved. The trunk of the rhyton consists of 3 parts: two ornamented and one smooth clip. The two upper ones have the form of a truncated cone decorated with an embossed relief image of stylized eagle heads. Their ends are soldered and attached to the base with nails. The edges of the clips are adorned with three golden ribbons. The lower smooth part of the trunk turns into a tip in the form of a lion's head with an open mouth with 4 fangs in it. The tip is decorated with three golden stripes.

Material/Technique

Gold, brass, fabric, paint, glue / embossing, molding

Measurements

l 445 mm, d 135 mm

Acknowledgements

Фінансування здійснюється зі Стабілізаційного фонду культури та освіти 2023 Федеральним міністерством закордонних справ Німеччини та Goethe-Institut. goethe.de
Funded by the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut. goethe.de

Literature

  • Колектив авторів (1999): Золота скарбниця України. Київ
Map
Created Created
-500
Північне Причорномор'я
Found Found
1984
Запорізька археологічна експедиція Інституту Археології
Velyka Znamianka
-501 1986
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