Middle Bronze Age II
Terracotta amphora
Amphora with necklace relief around the neck. H. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Relief and applied
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 1900 - 1600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 69, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1188, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 69
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