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Bowl
Cypriote
Bronze Age, Late Cypriote II Period
about 1400–1300 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Base-ring I ware
Dimensions
Legacy dimension: H. .073 D. .154 m.
Credit Line
Sarah Elizabeth Simpson Fund
Accession Number16.188
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 137.
Description"Base ring ware". Dull red clay with thin black slip, burned red in places. Bowl with nearly cylindrical bottom, flaring sides, and narrow vertical edge; low base ring; on one side near edge a recurved handle of two bands that come together and separate again in two points. No decoration.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Cesnola Collection; by date unknown: Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection; purchased by MFA from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 1916, for $ 51.88 (this is the total price of MFA 16.166-16.193)