Terracotta chalice with bull's heads

Mycenaean

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 151

Although much of the Mycenaean pictorial pottery found on Cyprus was imported from mainland Greece, this chalice was probably produced on the island itself. The decoration is characteristic of pottery made in the Argolid, a region of the Peloponnese, but the shape is attested only in vessels from Cyprus, Syria, and the Levant. Additional vases discovered in the Eastern Mediterranean have been attributed to the same artist, whose workshop was probably located in Cyprus.

Terracotta chalice with bull's heads, terracotta, Mycenaean

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