Terracotta jug with two necks - image 1

Middle Bronze Age I

Terracotta jug with two necks

Double neck and handle, incised lozenges and circles. H. 8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm)

Date

2000 - 1800 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1194

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from Alambra

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. XCVI.821, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 87, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 25, p. 30, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.