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There are 13 objects for which Shape_description contains → animal
26.2.60 Rim sherd of Chian Grand Style or Simple Animal Style pottery chalice;
26.2.61 Rim sherd (mended from two fragments) of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery chalice or Type B1 kantharos;
26.2.62 Body sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery chalice;
26.2.64 Body sherd of Chian Mature Animal Style pottery chalice;
26.2.65 Body sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery chalice or Type B1 kantharos;
26.2.66 Body sherd of Chian, possibly Simple Animal Style, pottery phiale mesomphalos;
26.2.67 Lower body sherd of Chian Mature Animal Style or Grand Style pottery chalice;
26.2.68 Body and base sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery;
26.2.69 Lower body sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery chalice;
26.2.70 Rim sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery phiale mesomphalos;
26.2.71 Rim sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery phiale mesomphalos;
26.2.72 Body sherd of Chian Simple Animal Style pottery chalice;
50.4.22 The bowl is a variant of Hoffmann's shape III (see H. Hoffmann, Tarentine Rhyta [Mainz 1966] 2) but the bowl is unusually aligned with the animal head. The Reading example corresponds to Hoffmann's 'main group' of Tarentine ram's-head rhyta, and particularly to his group E, which is 'the first wholly naturalistic representation of the ram-head', which he ascribes to the 'hand of Coroplast Beta'
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