Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription - image 1

Classical

Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription

Overall: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.8 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2286

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. 1817, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 5, p. 58.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1016, p. 176, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.