
Archaic
Composite lid
Bands, concentric circles and dots, handle in form of miniature bowl. 6 5/8in. (16.8cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Lid
- Decoration
- Painted
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 750 - 480 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 890, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.603, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 890
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