Hellenistic
Terracotta rattle in the form of a pig
Child's rattle in the shape of a pig; wheelmade with a pebble sealed up within. H.: 3 in. (7.6 cm) Other: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
Date
299 - 100 BC
Accession No.
74.51.833
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- Said to be from Idalion, Cyprus
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. pl. VIII, London: John Murray.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 996, p. 120, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Buchholz, Hans-Gunter. 1966. "Tonerne Rasseln aus Zypern." Archäologischer Anzeiger, 81: p. 145, n. 5.Lund, John. 2015. A Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD, Gösta Enbom Monographs, 5. no. 1656, pp. 147-48, 301, fig. 221, Bristol, CT: Aarhus University Press.
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