Archaic I

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

The painted inscription below the rim reads B‘LY (Baalay), the name of the owner of either the storage jar or its contents. H.: 18 15/16 in. (48.1 cm)

Classification

Object type: Pottery vessel
Shape: JarAmphora
Decoration: Painted
Material: Clay
Period: Iron AgeCypro-ArchaicCypro-Archaic I
Date: 650 - 600 BC
Findspot: Kition

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Said to be from Kition (modern Larnaka), Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1826, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 21, p. 65.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1083, p. 186, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.2298a, b, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 1826
Yon 2004, no. 1083

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