Limestone inscribed block
Description: | The block is inscribed in Greek with the names Drimokia and Timodoros. The same names appear on another block (74.51.2397). H.: 1 3/4 x 9 1/4 x 3 in. (4.4 x 23.5 x 7.6 cm) |
Period: | Geometric II |
Date: | 1000 - 400 BC |
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. CXLII, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1919, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1971. "Kypriaka IX: Recherches sur les antiquités de Golgoi." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 95(1): no. 6, pp. 327, fig. 15.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 2228, p. 313, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.Kantirea, Maria and Daniela Summa. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 2, 1. no. 323, p. 98, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2433 |