Terracotta kalathos (basket)

Terracotta kalathos (basket)

Description:

The kalathos is a Minoan-Mycenaean shape that first occurs on Crete.


Other: 7 13/16in. (19.9cm)

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1200 - 1050 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 459, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1137