Terracotta lagynos (pitcher) - image 1

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Terracotta lagynos (pitcher)

Jug of fine light clay, with angular body, laurel-wreath. The Greek word KITIAC (Kitias) painted above the wreath of laurel leaves and berries is probably a woman's name. These vessels are associated particularly with women's festivals and gatherings. 8 7/8in. (22.5cm)

Date

150 - 50 BC

Accession No.

74.51.390

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus, probably from the area of Larnaka (Kition)

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1878. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 40, New York: Harper & Brothers.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. CXLIII.1067, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 958, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Vessberg, Olof and Alfred Wesholm. 1956. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. 4, Pt. 3. p. 65, fig. 28:6, Stockholm: Håkan Ohlssons Boktryckeri.Masson, Olivier. 1984. "Noms de femmes sur des Lagynoi Chypriotes." Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities Cyprus for the year 1984 (RDAC), : pp. 231-32.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 452, p. 279, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. p. 273, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.Lund, John. 2015. A Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD, Gösta Enbom Monographs, 5. no. 112, pp. 80, 255, fig. 49, Bristol, CT: Aarhus University Press.Kantirea, Maria and Daniela Summa. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 2, 1. no. 297, p. 86, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.