Geometric III
Skyphos
Two-handled bowl with red slip; degenerate meander and guilloche patterns. 3in. (7.6cm) Other (rim): 4 5/16in. (11cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration
- Painted
- Motifs
- Meander, Guilloche and spiral
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Geometric
- Date
- 799 - 700 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Accession No.
74.51.591
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
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. CXLVI.1080, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1707, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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