Alabaster spoon or ladle

Alabaster spoon or ladle

Description:

The ladle is made of Cypriot stone, but imitates a shape from Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, where such ladles were made of alabaster and wood.


WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 1 3/4 × 2 in., 0.3 lb., 5 1/2 in. (4.4 × 5.1 cm, 0.1 kg, 14 cm)

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1200 - 1050 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. pl. XVIII, London: John Murray.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. CXII.1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1644, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 118, p. 73, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 632, p. 414, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.5119