Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Description:

Standing bird.


H. 7 15/16 in. (20.2 cm)

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

750 - 600 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus, said to be from Larnaca (Kition)

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. CXXX.970, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 755, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1127, p. 192, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.

Accession Number:

74.51.507