3704123 Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull, c.1300 BC (silver) by Hittite, (13th century BC); 18 high cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: This silver horn-shaped drinking vessel (rhyton) from Central Anatolia is shaped in the form of a bull. Hittite texts describe their gods as being given their own drinking vessels made in the form of their animal counterparts, so maybe this vessel was the property of the Hittite storm god Teshub with whom the bull was associated. ); Turkish, out of copyright.

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