Footed bowl, two encirling ridges for decoration
Cypriot
not dated
Terracotta with slip
Overall: 1 5/8 × 4 1/8 in. (4.2 × 10.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Emily Howe Hitchcock, Class of 1872HW
12.1.342
Geography
Place Made: Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, West Asia, Asia
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Classical World
Not on view
Inscriptions
"4" in red graphite on interior center
Provenance
Collected by Luigi Palma de Cesnola, American Consul to Cyprus, 1865-1876; given to Hiram Hitchcock (1832-1900, Class of 1872H), Hanover, New Hampshire, about 1872; bequeathed to his second wife, Emily Howe Hitchcock (1852-1912), Hanover, New Hampshire, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1912.
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