Archaic I
Silver bowl
Executed entirely by chasing, without repoussé, the center of the bowl is ornamented with a rosette and a zone of papyrus. The outer frieze consists of predominantly Egyptianizing motifs: sphinxes and griffins flanking lotuses, hawks, winged snakes, a sphinx holding an ankh (the symbol of life), and varied flora. Below a large water bird with extended wings appears the Cypriot syllabic inscription "I am the bowl of Epiorwos, son of Dies." H. 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm) diameter 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm)
Date
675 - 625 BC
Accession No.
74.51.4552
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4552, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1980. "Kypriaka, XIII-XIV." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 104(1): pp. 225-31, fig. 1.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. 437, pp. 167, 376, pl. 41, 437, München: Beck.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 302, p. 185, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 123, p. 51, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.
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