QUICK FACTS
Name: Apulian dog head rhyton
What it is: A terracotta cup in the shape of a dog's head
Where it is from: Puglia, Italy
When it was made: 340 to 330 B.C.
This terracotta cup was made to resemble the head of a Laconian hound, an extinct Greek hunting breed also known as a Spartan hound. Discovered in the "heel" of Italy's "boot," the rhyton — a kind of drinking vessel — shows the influence of Greece on southern Italy 2,300 years ago.
