Terracotta jug
Description: | The mouth has been carefully shaped into the head of a horned animal, undoubtedly a bull. The small openings at its muzzle and behind the horns indicate that the vase was used for a specific, probably ritual, purpose. H. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm) |
Period: | Archaic I |
Date: | 750 - 600 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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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. CXX.919, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 819, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 148, pp. 92-93, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.606 |