Middle Bronze Age II
Terracotta composite jug
Flask with double body, beak spout, four feet, string holes and basketry decoration. H. 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm)
Date
1800 - 1725 BC
Accession No.
74.51.1050
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- Said to be from Alambra
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. LXXXVIII.768, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 233, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 37, p. 33, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 264, pp. 227, 457-58, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.