Beaked Flagon (Oinochoe)

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Culture: Etruscan Material: Bronze Dims: H 25.9 Accession No: MG 015 Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick. A beak-spouted flagon of beaten bronze on a splayed base with a bulbous shoulder, narrow neck and flat rimmed pouring mouth. The cast handle has a terminal on the body, decorated with a palmette, S-spirals and scrolls ending in a lotus flower above and a lyre below. Above, the handle forks ending in two animal heads with setback ears appearing to represent crouching felines. This is a type known as ‘Schnabelkanne’, a distinctly ‘Celtic’ style manufactured from the late sixth-century BC in Etruria. They were often placed in Celtic princely graves and traces of wine have been found in some flagons. More.

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The Hunt Museum preserves and exhibits the original artefacts gathered, over a lifetime, by John and Gertrude Hunt and known as the Hunt Collection. The Museum also displays its own collections, as well as visiting exhibitions of Local, National and International significance with the overall aim of maximising their cultural and educational potential for the people of Limerick and Ireland.

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