Evans, Arthur: The ‘Tomb of the Double Axes’ and associated group, and the pillar rooms and ritual vessels of the ‘Little Palace’ at Knossos’ (London, 1914)

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THE PILLAR ROOMS AND RITUAL VESSELS

by the native potters. I am here able to reproduce (fig. 97) a late Hittite
example of this class of ritual vessel from a tomb in the neighbourhood of Ain

Fig. 97. Bull's-head ' rhyton' from tomb near Ain Tab.

Tab,1 and dating probably from about 1000 B.C. In having its larger opening
in the neck it follows Cypriote analogies, but the smaller orifice is in the lower
lip, in accordance with the earliest Minoan prototypes. The character of the eye
recalls the rudest sub-Minoan workmanship.

1 This rhyton is in the Ashmolean Museum.