Diabase bowl with spout
Description: | This bowl, made of a local, hard, gray stone called diabase, is characteristic of the kinds of vessels the prehistoric Cypriots made before they began to produce handmade pottery. H. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm) |
Period: | Neolithic |
Date: | 6500 - 5500 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | From Khirokitia, Cyprus 1934, excavated in Khirokitia; 1934-present, collection of the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus; 2000-present, on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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Accession Number: | L.2000.12.1 |