Amphora (jar)
Culture: Cypriot
Period: Cypro-Archaic
Date: ca. 650-550 B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions:
preserved height: 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm)
diameter with handles: 12 in. (30.5 cm)
diameter of foot: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.20
Markings: Inventory numbers written in ink on exterior below handle: "2." and "S R 5029/69"
Provenance: acquired by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, on Cyprus, 1969; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picon, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 49, no. 8
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