Early Bronze Age I
Jug
Narrow-necked with handle and incised zigzags. 9 11/16in. (24.6cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Decoration
- Incised
- Motif
- Zigzags and chevrons
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 2500 - 1900 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. XCIX.850, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 84, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1161, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 84
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