Alabaster inscribed "alabastron"
Description: | The large “alabastron” has a flat base, no neck, and a flat mouth. One of the two lugs is broken. Four Phoenician letters that are difficult to interpret and three vertical lines (the number 100?) are incised under the mouth. H.: 11 x 7 in. (27.9 x 17.8 cm) |
Period: | Classical |
Date: | 399 - 300 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | Said to be from Kition, Cyprus |
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. CXLI.1048, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.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. CXXIII.22, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1825, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 24, pp. 66-67.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1084, p. 186, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 549, p. 395, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2295a |