Terracotta ring-kernos (offering vessel) - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Terracotta ring-kernos (offering vessel)

There was a long tradition of ring-kernoi with miniature vases in Bronze Age Cyprus. They were also popular in the Levant. H. 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)

Date

1200 - 1050 BC

Accession No.

74.51.810

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. XCV.816, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 523, 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. 78, p. 54, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.