Jar with beaked spout and stag figures on rim

Near Eastern, Iranian, Iron Age,
early 1st millennium B.C.
Height x max. diameter: 11.4 x 16.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Source: Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA [1]

The Iron Age people of the Caspian coastal region of northwest Iran left no written records, but their richly furnished tombs attest to their power and influence. They also produced distinctive red and gray-ware pottery vessels, usually referred to as Amlash, after the town where they first appeared in the 1950s and 1960s, or Marlik, where the first scientifically excavated examples came to light.

Amlash bull,Marlik Teppe

Possible Amlash or Marlik Bull
Circa 1200 B.C.
Source: Trocadero Antique Store [1]

An Amlash pottery bull rhyton

AN AMLASH POTTERY BULL RHYTON

10TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
The hollow vessel with cylindrical body and prominent neck hump, the muzzle extending into a long spout, with long horns and small ears below, vertical ridges for the dewlap and tail, punched circular decoration over the rump, shoulders and neck, on four tapering legs, repaired and restored
14 in. (36 cm.) long; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Spouted Zebu Vessel - Marlik

Marlik, Iran
circa 1000 BC
kept in: The Cleavland Museum of Art, [1]