Limestone incense burner on three legs, Hellenistic Cypriot thymiaterion — Limestone incense burner on three legs, Hellenistic Cypriot, c. 330 BC–300 AD. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.5159.Open Access by the MET

Hellenistic

Limestone incense burner on three legs

The three feet, in the shape of lion’s paws, support a circular base decorated with concave tongues. Overall: 3 15/16 x 4 1/8 in. (10 x 10.5 cm)

Classification

Object type: Stone vessel
Shape: Special and ritual vesselsThymiaterion
Material: StoneLimestone
Findspot: Golgoi
Date: 330 BC - 300 AD

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Accession No.

74.51.5159

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Necropolis of Golgoi

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. XCII.60, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1668, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Pfrommer, Michael. 1987. Studien zu Alexandrinischer und Grossgriechischer Toreutik frühhellenistischer Zeit, Archäologische Forschungen 16. pp. 28, 35, n. 130, 211, Berlin: Mann.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 383, p. 280, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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