
Late Bronze Age III
Amphora
Broad and narrow horizontal bands. Height: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Motif
- Bands and lines
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Date
- 1125 - 1050 BC
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 858, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.604, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 858
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