Alabaster mortar or deep bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age I

Alabaster mortar or deep bowl

The bowl has a flat base, three lugs with an incised line along the top, and a small pouring spout. There are tool marks on the outside. H. 1 15/16 x 5 3/4 in. (4.9 x 14.6 cm)

Date

1605 - 1595 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5127

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From 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. CXII.7, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1632, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 622, pp. 412-13, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.