Although the lotus motif came from the East, bronze bowls or basins with lotiform handles seem to have been a Cypriot invention that flourished from the Geometric into the Archaic period. Such large examples are rare. Smaller bowls are more common and exist also in terracotta. Moreover, they were exported to the Levant, the Aegean region, and Italy.
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Title:Bronze bowl with handles terminating in lotuses
Period:Cypro-Geometric III
Date:ca. 850–750 BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:H. 5 7/8 in. (15 cm) H. with handles 10 5/8 in. (27 cm) diameter 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number:74.51.5673
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Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 271, pp. 166–7, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tatton-Brown, Veronica. 2000. "The New Galleries of Cypriot Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Apollo, 152: p. 5, fig. 4.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 277, pp. 238, 461, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stylianou, Andreas and Patrick Schollmeyer. 2007. "Der Sarkophag aus Golgoi." Dynastensarkophage mit szenischen Reliefs aus Byblos und Zypern: Der Sarkophag aus Amathous als Beispiel kontaktinduzierten Wandels, 2. p. 163 n. 1338, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
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