Terracotta vase fragment, Bronze Age Cypriot sherd — Terracotta vase fragment, Bronze Age Cypriot, c. 3900 BC–100 AD. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2354.Open Access by the MET

Bronze Age

Terracotta vase fragment

Dedicated to the Lady of Paphos. H.: 4 1/2 x 7 x 1/4 in. (11.4 x 17.8 x 0.6 cm)

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Shape: Sherd
Material: Clay
Findspot: Chytroi
Date: 3900 BC - 100 AD

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Said to be from Khytroi, 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. CXXIV, 7, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1837, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.2354, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 1837

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