
Early Bronze Age I
Jug
Narrow-necked with handle and incised squares forming crosses. 8 15/16in. (22.7cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Pottery vessel
- Shape
- Jug
- Decoration
- Incised
- Material
- Clay
- Date
- 2500 - 1900 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
Collection
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 85, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Identifiers
- Accession no.
- 74.51.1191, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In catalogues
- Myres 1914, no. 85
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