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 |