Archaic I
Jug neck in shape of male head
H. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Motif
- Human figure
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
Collection
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.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1698, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 2139
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