Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription, Archaic II Cypriot — Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription, Archaic II Cypriot, c. 599–400 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2300.Open Access by the MET

Archaic II

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

There is a painted inscription of three lines: at top, Baalpilles, probably the name of the owner; below, Yaton, inspector. Production of such Phoenician amphorae appears to have taken place on Cyprus, but finds at shipwrecks sites show that they were widely dispersed thoughout the eastern Mediterranean. H.: 22 3/4 in. (57.8 cm)

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Shape: JarAmphora
Decoration: Painted
Material: Clay
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Kition
Date: 599 - 400 BC

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus, said to be from the sanctuary of the Phoenician diety Eshmun-melqarth at Kition (modern Larnaka)

References

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. CXLI.1049, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1827, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 23, p. 66.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1082, p. 186, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.2300, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 1827
Yon 2004, no. 1082

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