Amphora

Amphora

Description:

Wide-mouthed amphora with red lozenges on shoulder and birds on neck.


8 7/16in. (21.4cm) Other (rim): 3 9/16in. (9cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 480 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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. CXXI.924, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 780, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.724