Shallow bronze bowl

Shallow bronze bowl

Description:

Attached around the lip are solid-cast spools. Since they are not perforated, their function seems to have been primarily decorative.


2in. (5.1cm) Other: 10in. (25.4cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

699 - 500 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4916, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 537, p. 203, New York: Gilliss Press.Matthäus, Hartmut. 1985. Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern: mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung II Bd. 8. no. 372, pp. 134, 376, München: Beck.

Accession Number:

74.51.5615