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Diabase bowl with spout

Cypriot

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

This bowl, made of a local, hard, gray stone called diabase, is characteristic of the kinds of vessels the prehistoric Cypriots made before they began to produce handmade pottery.

Diabase bowl with spout, Diabase, Cypriot

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