Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription - image 1

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)

Date

650 - 600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2298a, b

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.