Geometric III
Amphora
Bowl on high foot with straight and wavy lines in black and red. 9 1/8in. (23.2cm) Other (rim): 7 1/8in. (18.1cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Decoration techniques
- Painted, PaintedPainted in two colours
- Motifs
- Bands and lines, Wavy lines
- Material
- Clay
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Date
- 850 - 600 BC
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 511, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.494, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 511
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