
Classical
Amphora
Amphora with multiple handles and geometric decoration. H. 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Motif
- Bands and lines
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Date
- 507 - 323 BC
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 922, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.694, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 922
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