Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

Description:

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)

Period:

Archaic I

Date:

650 - 600 BC

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.2298a, b