Archaic I
Amphora
14 5/8in. (37.2cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 750 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Collection
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. CXVI.902, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 920, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.714, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 920
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