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)

Date

1300 - 1200 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5070

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.