Beak Spouted Vessel with a Warrior and a Lion in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Beak-spouted vessel with a warrior and a lion

Near Eastern, Iranian, Iron Age, 10th–9th century B.C.

Findspot: Iran

Dimensions: Height 7 width (at spout): 19.05 x 30.16 cm (7 1/2 x 11 7/8 in.)

Medium or Technique: Painted pottery

Classification: Vessels

Accession Number: 1971.402

Painted pottery vessel with globular body and a long, beak-shaped spout opposite the handle. Decorated in red paint: on the belly, figures of a lion and a warrior with lance and shield, separated by a geometric band around the spout made up of a row of hatched rectangles and diamonds surrounded by a "feather" pattern of triangles. In the open field around the figures are eight-petaled rosettes. The spout is painted solid red. Many vessels of this type were found in the Iron Age cemetery at the fortified town of Tepe Sialk. Most are covered with animals and geometric patterns that may imitate textiles. This particular vessel is rare in depicting a warrior.

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