Jug neck in shape of male head - image 1

Archaic I

Jug neck in shape of male head

H. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)

Date

750 - 600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.1698

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2139, p. 350, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Nys, Karin. 1996. "Vases With Anthropomorphic Protomes." Four Thousand Years of Images on Cypriote Pottery: Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Cypriote Studies Nicosia, 3-4 May, 1996, Vassos Karageorghis, Robert Laffineur, and Frieda Vandenabeele, eds. p. 84, n. 28, Brussels: Kliemo sa, Eupen.