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Object Number:MS5711
Current Location: Classical World Gallery
Currently On Display
Culture:Cypriot
Provenience: Cyprus
Period: Cypriot Iron Age
Section:Mediterranean
Materials:Ceramic
Technique:Bichrome IV
Iconography:Bird
Height: 24 cm
Length: 31 cm
Width: 31 cm
Outside Diameter:31.5 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926

Description

Bichrome IV ware. Bird in central panel. Two lotus facing a rosette in each lateral zone. Bars and wavy line on handle; winged lozenges below handle. Wavy line around neck below handle-ridge. The usual bands on body and neck.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Worlds Intertwined: Classical World Introduction (14 Mar 2003) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 127, fig. 115View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Betancourt, Philip P. 1969. "The Age of Homer: An Exhibition of Geometric and Orientalizing Greek Art". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 12. no. 1. pg. 2-14 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 4, fig. 1View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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