
Archaic I
Amphora
Height: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 699 - 600 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Idalion
Collection
Provenance
- From CyprusSaid to have been found at Dali (Idalium), 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. CXLI.1047, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 775, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier and Maurice Sznycer. 1972. Recherches sur les Phéniciens à Chypre. p. 134, Geneva/ Paris: Librairie Droz.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 27, p. 68.Langdon, Susan. 1993. From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer no. 72, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1001, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 775
Photographs in the Archive
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- Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3680. Public domain (CC0).
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