
Geometric I
Jug
One handle, globular body, circles, and star at front and back. Other: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Motif
- Concentric circles
- Material
- Clay
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Geometric
- Date
- 1050 - 900 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 815, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.876, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 815
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