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Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

This skyphos is probably a Cypriot imitation of an Attic prototype. H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); diameter 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)

Date

799 - 750 BC

Accession No.

74.51.590

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

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. CXLVI.1081, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1706, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.