Middle Bronze Age III
Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers
The animal represented is likely a native species of deer. Bones of wild deer have been found at prehistoric sites on the island. H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Terracotta figure-vessel
- Motif
- Goat, deer and ibex
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 1725 - 1600 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Idalion
Accession No.
74.51.795
Collection
Provenance
- Said to be from Idalion
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.811, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 221, 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. 38, p. 34, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Tatton-Brown, Veronica. 2000. "The New Galleries of Cypriot Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Apollo, 152: p. 4, fig. 2.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 262, pp. 227, 457, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Bombardieri, Luca and Elisa Panero. 2021. Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations : exhibition catalog p. 92, fig. 5, London: DeArtcom.
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