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Cypriot Terracotta Woman Baking Bread in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Cypriot Terracotta Woman Baking Bread in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011
Terracotta woman baking bread

Period: Cypro-Archaic II

Date: ca. 600–480 B.C.

Culture: Cypriot

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 3 in. (7.6 cm)

Classification: Terracottas

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.1755

Description:

In a representation known from only two examples, a woman is shown leaning over an oven and throwing the disks of dough onto the hot walls. The oven has a hole at the bottom for air to enter and a wide mouth.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

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