Middle Bronze Age III

Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with a ram's head

An indigenous species of wild sheep existed on Cyprus in the Bronze Age. Domestic sheep had also been introduced by Neolithic settlers. H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Date

1725 - 1600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.801

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Said to be from Idalion

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. XCV.817, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 219, 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. 39, p. 34, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 263, pp. 227, 457, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Bombardieri, Luca and Elisa Panero. 2021. Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations : exhibition catalog p. 92, fig. 5, London: DeArtcom.