Geometric I
Terracotta trick vase
The body was filled through the hollow stem, and the liquid poured out through the hold in the goat's muzzle. This type of vase was most popular during the late eleventh century B.C. H. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Motif
- Goat, deer and ibex
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 1050 - 950 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Accession No.
74.51.782
Collection
Provenance
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XCV.813, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 518, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 126, p. 80, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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