Amphora - image 1

Archaic II

Amphora

Frieze of conventional trees alternating with groups of concentric circles. 21 3/4in. (55.2cm)

Date

600 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.991

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

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. CXVII.906, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 924, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.