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Diabase bowl with spout, Neolithic Cypriot
Diabase bowl with spout, Neolithic Cypriot, c. 6500–5500 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, L.2000.12.1.Open Access by the MET

Neolithic

Diabase bowl with spout

This bowl, made of a local, hard, gray stone called diabase, is characteristic of the kinds of vessels the prehistoric Cypriots made before they began to produce handmade pottery. H. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

Classification

Object type
Stone vessel
Shape
BowlSpouted bowl
Materials
StoneAndesite and diabase, Stone
Period
NeolithicAceramic Neolithic
Date
6500 - 5500 BC
Place of production
Cyprus
Findspot
Khirokitia

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Provenance

  • From Khirokitia, Cyprus 1934, excavated in Khirokitia; 1934-present, collection of the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus; 2000-present, on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
L.2000.12.1, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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