Skyphos

Skyphos

Description:

Two-handled bowl with geometric ornament with birds and rosettes.


2 5/8 x 6 9/16 in. (6.71 x 16.61 cm)

Period:

Geometric III

Date:

799 - 700 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.478