Terracotta amphora - image 1

Middle Bronze Age III

Terracotta amphora

Two-handled vase with red and brown broad vertical and horizontal bands. H. 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm)

Date

1725 - 1600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.845

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from Alambra

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. LXXXVIII.769, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 242, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 34, pp. 32-33, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.