Terracotta jug

Terracotta jug

Description:

Red Polished Ware first appears in the repertoire of Cypriot ceramics at the very beginning of the Early Cypriot I period. It was introduced by emigrants from Anatolia who settled on the island soon after the middle of the third millennium B.C.


H. 8 11/16 in. (22.1 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. LXXXIII.744, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 82, 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. 24, pp. 29-30, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1195