Classical

Limestone inscribed block

There are two inscriptions; one is a text in three lines of Cypro-Syllabic and the other is a single word in Greek, meaning "of Themias." The two may not be contemporary, and the Greek may have been added when the block was reused. Overall: 8 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (22.2 x 50.2 x 12.1 cm)

Classification

Object type: Inscribed object
Material: StoneLimestone
Period: Iron AgeCypro-Classical
Date: 499 - 400 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Golgoi

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Accession No.

74.51.2321

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Said to be from Golgoi, Cyprus

References

Hall, Isaac H. 1874. "Cypriote Inscriptions of the Di Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10: no. 4, p. 2074, pl. I.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. CXXIX, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1898, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1971. "Kypriaka IX: Recherches sur les antiquités de Golgoi." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 95(1): no. 8, pp. 328, 330, fig. 17.Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 186, Rome: American Academy in Rome.Kantirea, Maria and Daniela Summa. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 2, 1. no. 341, p. 105, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.