
Classical
Terracotta jug with horse's head in relief
Jug with horse's head, horizontal bands, and concentric circles. H.: 13 in. (33 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, Relief and appliedModelled figures and attachments
- Motifs
- Horse, Concentric circles, Bands and lines
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Classical
- Date
- 480 - 350 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
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. CXXXIII.980, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 944, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.633, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 944
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