Ram-Head Drinking Vessel
-605–-595
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.3 x 19.8 x 18.7 cm (11 15/16 x 7 13/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Median
About
The Medes, who conquered the Assyrians, were soon conquered by the Achaemenian Cyrus the Great, king of Persia from 559 to 529 BC. The rhyton, or horn-shaped drinking vessel, popular among the Medes, was adopted by the Achaemenians.