Tree and sacred tree
Also called tree of life, palmette, palm tree
- Objects
- 73
In the Compendium
The Tree and the Sacred Tree
The tree motif in Cypriot art, alone or flanked by animals as a sacred tree, on seals, gold, silver bowls, stone and painted pottery from the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Classical period.
Across the catalogue
Object types
Wares
Decoration techniques
Materials
Periods
Places of production
Collections
- The British Museum Collection37
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art21
- The Ashmolean Museum6
- Cyprus Museum, Nicosia3
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna2
- The Cyprus Museum, Jacksonville2
- Larnaca Museum1
- National Museum Liverpool1
Objects
1–48 of 73
"Sacred Tree Cylinder Seal"
Late Bronze Age II
Amphora
Archaic II
Amphora
Archaic I
Amphora
Archaic II
Amphora
Archaic II
Amphoriskos
Archaic II
Babylonian Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age I
Bichrome Amphora
Archaic II
Bichrome Figural Vase
Archaic I
Bichrome Ware Jug
Archaic I
Black Chloritite Griffin Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Black Chloritite Seal
Late Bronze Age III
Bowl
Geometric II
Bronze Palmette Mirror
Archaic II
Bronze Strigil
Archaic II
Chlorite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Chlorite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Chlorite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Chlorite Lion Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Cloritite Figurative Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Copper Sulphide Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Crystal Seal with Sea Urchin
Archaic II
Cylinder seal depicting a stylized tree framed by two climbing goats and a long-robed human figure
Late Bronze Age II
Cylinder seal depicting a tree, a human head, a winged human figure, and a sphinx among other ornamental motifs
Late Bronze Age II
Cylinder seal, tree, bucranium, human figure with curves beside head, crescent above dot
Late Bronze Age II
Cylinder seal, human figure with ingot, tree, bucranium
Late Bronze Age II
Cylinder seal, three ornamental trees alternating with two upended ibexes and foot
Late Bronze Age I
Cylinder seal, tree, human figure with ingot, stroke over bucranium
Late Bronze Age II
Cypro-Archaic Footed Amphora
Archaic I
Fragment of a limestone relief with a tree and birds of prey
Archaic II
Fragmentary limestone Cypriot capital
Classical
Free Field Bowl
Geometric
Free Field Centaurs Jug
Geometric
Free Field Jar
Geometric
Free Field Kylix
Geometric
Gold hoop with plasma scarab
Archaic II
Gold leaf frontlet (band for forehead)
Archaic II
Gold leaf frontlet (band for forehead)
Archaic II
Gold ring with chalcedony scaraboid
Classical
Greek Two-Handled Terracotta Wine Cup From Cyprus
Archaic II
Haematite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age II
Hematite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age I
Iron Chlorite Cylinder Seal
Late Bronze Age I
Jug
Archaic II
Jug, barrel-shaped
Archaic II
Juglet
Archaic II
Känchen der White Painted IV Ware
Archaic I
Krater
Archaic I