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Red Polished Ware pottery and its derivatives were manufactured in southern Cyprus throughout the Early Bronze Age and a good part of the Middle Bronze Age, a period of more than five hundred years. Potters of the Middle Cypriot period never attained the vivacity and originality seen in Early Cypriot Red Polished Ware works.
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Title: Terracotta dog (?) figurine with suspension hole
Period: Middle Cypriot I
Date: ca. 1900–1800 BCE
Culture: Cypriot
Medium: Terracotta; hand-made
Dimensions: H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.1293
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