Limestone inscribed block

Limestone inscribed block

Description:

Statue base with an inscription.


H.: 9 1/8 in., 11 cm, 2 3/4 in. (23.2 x 11 x 7 cm)

Period:

Bronze Age

Date:

3900 BC - 100 AD

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Golgoi, 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, 4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1896, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2376