The present publication is the outgrowth of an attempt to localize and explain a pair of attachments from an ancient bronze vessel belonging to the Walters Art Gallery (pl. 27, figs. 1-3).1 Preserved are the spout and vertical handle, sufficing to determine the form of the body and incorporating the holders for a swinging handle. They have acquired an even gray-green patina, very smooth except in restricted areas of chipping or accretion and thin enough to allow the original perfect surface and delicate modeling to be appreciated. The spout is a griffin's head with its eagle beak closed on a horse's leg, the hoof of which is perforated (pl. 27, figs. I and 3). Not being cloven like cattle hoofs or swine's, it clearly belongs to a horse. The eyes and the plastically modeled forehead of the monster are those of a lion whose ears