Pottery: red-figured rhyton in the form of an eagle’s head. The one-handled cup, which has a band of tongue pattern round the lip, and a band of black glaze, terminates in the head of an eagle; the beak is black glaze, the head covered with black lines, imitating feathers, on a red ground. The space around the eye is left in the natural colour of the clay, with thin white lines radiating from the centre; the eye itself is modelled and painted, the pupil and outlines black, the rest white. From the end of the beak upwards a series of brush-marks are drawn in white on the black glaze, as if to indicate the stains of food.
This object was scanned by Amelia Knowlson, using an Artec Spider, as part of a research placement at The British Museum
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