Late Bronze Age I

Terracotta tankard

High-necked, horn on handle modeled as human face, lattice, lozenge and wavy lines. H. 8 13/16 in. (22.4 cm)

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Shape: JugTankard
Decoration techniques: Relief and appliedModelled figures and attachments, Painted
Motifs: Lattice and checkerboard, Triangles and lozenges, Wavy lines
Material: Clay
Period: Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot I
Date: 1600 - 1450 BC
Place of production: probablyCyprus

Accession No.

74.51.1030

Collection

Provenance

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.