Archaic I
Two fragments of a silver bowl
Preserved are part of a frieze with hieroglyphic-like motifs and two further friezes with goats and lions among trees. Other (a.): 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Other (b.): 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Metal vessel
- Shape
- Bowl
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 699 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Accession No.
74.51.4558a, b
Collection
Provenance
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. nos. 4558a-b, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Matthäus, Hartmut. 1985. Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern: mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung II Bd. 8. cat. 440, pp. 168, 376, pl. 43, 440, München: Beck.Hendrix, Elizabeth. 1999. "A Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered: II. The Technique and Physical History of the Bowl." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 34: pp. 27-30, figs. 11-12.
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