Bronze cauldron handle, winged disc, winged man

Cauldron handle in a form of a winged man with a solar disc body. Its body is curiously separated from the wings, thus forming a cross with its head and arms as the other three points.

Bronze Cauldron Handle.

End of 8th Century B.C.

Cauldron handles attached on sirens were much loved by Urartians and Phrygians in Anatolia. Cauldrons with such attachments were among exported from Anatolia in the 1st millennium B.C.

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