Terracotta vase in the form of a sleeping Black African youth

Cypriot

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 164

The sleeping boy's nakedness and exhausted state suggest that he is a servant. Vases of this shape probably held perfumed oils.

Terracotta vase in the form of a sleeping Black African youth, Terracotta, Cypriot

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