Terracotta jug with two necks

Terracotta jug with two necks

Description:

Double neck and handle, incised lozenges and circles.


H. 8 9/16 in. (21.8 cm)

Period:

Middle Bronze Age I

Date:

2000 - 1800 BC

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. XCVI.821, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 87, 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. 25, p. 30, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1194