Vesicular basalt bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot — Vesicular basalt bowl, Late Bronze Age II Cypriot, c. 1600–1200 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.5044.Open Access by the MET

Late Bronze Age II

Vesicular basalt bowl

The small bowl has a ring-shaped foot and an in-curved edge. H. 1 3/8 x Diam. 5 7/16 in. (3.5 x 13.8 cm)

Classification

Object type: Stone vessel
Shape: BowlHemispherical bowl
Material: StoneAndesite and diabase
Period: Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)
Date: 1600 - 1200 BC
Place of production: probablyCyprus

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Accession No.

74.51.5044

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus

References

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXIV.7, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1522, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 572, pp. 400-1, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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