Rattle shaped like an owl
This rattle is shaped like an owl with two holes for eyes with two ear tufts above. It was probably a child’s toy. Rattles have been found in tombs in Cyprus, but no records survive to record where this was found.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 31/1918/59
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- potteryWhite Painted ware
- Common Name
- rattle shaped like an owl
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Production Year Low
- -1650
- Production Year High
- -1575
