1st millennium BC. A ceramic zoomorphic vessel formed as a ram; exaggerated spherical body with conical legs, integral neck and head with horns, brow, raised eyes with punched recesses, muzzle with nostrils and open mouth; integral cotton-reel style neck with flared rim and integral handle; short triangular tail; integral conical spout to chest; body with geometric design painted in red pigment. See Ebbinghaus, S., edn., Animal-Shaped Vessels From The Ancient World, Feasting With Gods, Heroes, and Kings, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2019, for discussion and comparable examples. 916 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a central London collector; previously with a central London gallery; accompanied by an original thermoluminescence analysis report by The Research Laboratory for Archaeology and The History of Art, Oxford University, dated 16 June 1981.