
Geometric III
Skyphos
Two-handled bowl with geometric ornament with birds and rosettes. 2 5/8 x 6 9/16 in. (6.71 x 16.61 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Geometric
- Date
- 799 - 700 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
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. CXLVI.1082, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Gabrici, Ettore. 1913. "Cuma." Monumenti Antichi, 22(2): p. 407, n. 2, fig. 157.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1704, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Gjerstad, Einar, Yves Calvet, Vassos Karageorghis, and Jean-Paul Thalmann. 1977. Greek Geometric and Archaic Pottery Found in Cyprus. pl. VI, Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen.Coldstream, John Nicolas. 1979. "Geometric Skyphoi in Cyprus." Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (RDAC), : p. 261, n. 2.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.478, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 1704
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