Limestone votive vase fragment
Description: | The fragment, from the belly of a large vase, bears a syllabic inscription: a dedication of Timokretes to (Apollo) Magirios. H.: 11 3/4 x 17 x 1 1/2 in. (29.8 x 43.2 x 3.8 cm) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 400 - 301 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | Said to be from Pyla, Cyprus |
References: | Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXXIX, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1854, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. no. 305, pl. LIII.1, Paris: E. de Boccard.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 2509, p. 341, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 422, p. 300, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2340 |