Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Description:

The shape of this jug is typically Cypriot, but the decoration was likely inspired by Tell el-Yahudieh Ware pottery imported to Cyprus from Egypt.


H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)

Period:

Late Bronze Age II

Date:

1600 - 1050 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 367, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1370