Limestone alabastron (perfume vase)

Limestone alabastron (perfume vase)

Description:

There are traces of bronze on the surface. The asymmetrical alabastron has a wide lip.


H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 401 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From the necropolis of Golgoi

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XCII.603, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1674, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 522, p. 388, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.5158