Stirrup Jar with Painted Decoration
16th-14th century BCE
Description
Stirrup jar. Slightly convex top-disc painted with dot, disc is slightly broader than spout. Small hollowed ring base. Loop of paint connecting spout to false spout. Wide concentric band enclose smaller concentric bands around vessel atshoulder, below belly, and at base. Buff slip, brown-black paint. scratched, pitted, chipped. Cypro-Mycenaean. Late Cypriot II (c. 1400-1200)
Dimensions
9 x 10.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Purchased from the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Department of the Classics, 1928; originally part of Cesnola Collection. Transfered from the Department of the Classics, 1977.
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