Hellenistic
Terracotta lagynos (oil flask)
The late Hellenistic date of this lagynos is suggested by its shape, characterized by a long neck and wide base, which evolved from an earlier type of flask with a narrow neck and oval body . By contrast, the decorative scheme of this vessel cannot be used as an accurate criterion for dating, since it is merely a continuation of the "painted white ware" technique used on cypriot pottery since the eighth century. h. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
Date
150 - 50 BC
Accession No.
74.51.441
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. CXXXVII.1001, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 960, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. p. 130, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Vessberg, Olof and Alfred Wesholm. 1956. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Vol. 4, Pt. 3. p. 65, fig. 28:9, Stockholm: Håkan Ohlssons Boktryckeri.Lund, John. 2015. A Study of the Circulation of Ceramics in Cyprus from the 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD, Gösta Enbom Monographs, 5. no. 162, pp. 82-4, 258, fig. 57, Bristol, CT: Aarhus University Press.
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