Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription - image 1

Classical

Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription

Overall: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (10.8 x 14 x 7.3 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2272

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from the sanctuary of Phoenician diety Eshmun-Melqarth at Kition, Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1803, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 14, p. 62.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1005, p. 175, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.