Late Bronze Age II
Faience bowl
Interior, lotus flower This is probably a local, Cypriot imitation of an Egyptian faience lotus bowl. Here, the flower is on the interior. The exterior of metal phialai are often articulated with more or less stylized petals. H. 2 in. (5.1 cm) diameter 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Faience object
- Shape
- Bowl
- Decoration
- Moulded
- Motif
- Lotus
- Material
- Glass and faienceFaience
- Date
- 1300 - 1200 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Idalion
Accession No.
74.51.5070
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus, from a tomb at Idalion
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CVIII, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1577, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Foster, Karen Polinger. 1979. Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age. p. 50, n. 314, New Haven: Yale University Press.
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