Middle Bronze Age III
Terracotta jug
The shape and engraved decoration is probably inspired by Tell el-Yahudieh jugs. H. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Decoration
- Incised
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 1725 - 1600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 166, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1228, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 166
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