Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup) - image 1

Archaic I

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

The cup can be paralleled by an example from Sicily that seems to be Euboean. It may also be a Cypriot imitation of the Late Geometric III period. H. 2 7/8 in. (7.29 cm)

Date

725 - 700 BC

Accession No.

74.51.594

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From 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. CXLVI.1084, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1708, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.