Zoomorphic Askos Fragment-Bull Head

Cypriot

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about 1500 BCE

Terracotta with black paint

Overall: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW

12.1.331B

Geography

Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, West Asia, Asia

Period

2000-1000 BCE

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Classical World

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, American Consul to Cyprus, 1865-1876; given to Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1872; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.

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