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.
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