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Terracotta bowl

Cypriot

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

During the latter part of the Neolithic period, the Cypriots started making containers of baked clay often decorated with abstract patterns in red on a light slip. Red-on-White Ware became the predominant pottery made on the island in the following Chalcolithic period.

Terracotta bowl, Terracotta, Cypriot

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