Archaic I

Two fragments of a silver bowl

Preserved are part of a frieze with hieroglyphic-like motifs and two further friezes with goats and lions among trees. Other (a.): 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Other (b.): 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

Date

699 - 600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.4558a, b

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. nos. 4558a-b, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Matthäus, Hartmut. 1985. Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern: mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung II Bd. 8. cat. 440, pp. 168, 376, pl. 43, 440, München: Beck.Hendrix, Elizabeth. 1999. "A Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered: II. The Technique and Physical History of the Bowl." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 34: pp. 27-30, figs. 11-12.