Terracotta jug
Description: | The jug is decorated with a Black African wearing a tunic and carrying two spears. H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) |
Period: | Archaic I |
Date: | 750 - 600 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | |
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. CXXIX.962, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 762, 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. 150, p. 94, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karageorghis, Vassos. 2006. Aspects of Everyday Life in Cyprus: Iconographic Representations. no. 191, p. 197, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.532 |