Terracotta tankard

Terracotta tankard

Description:

High-necked, horn on handle modeled as human face, lattice, lozenge and wavy lines.


H. 8 13/16 in. (22.4 cm)

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1600 - 1450 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Alambra

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. LXXXVII.765, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 313, 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. 52, p. 38, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 267, pp. 230, 458-59, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1030