Limestone inscribed box fragment

Limestone inscribed box fragment

Description:

Fragment of an inscribed box; dedicated to the Lady of Paphos.


H.: 2 1/4 x 4 3/8 x 1 in. (5.7 x 11.1 x 2.5 cm)

Period:

Bronze Age

Date:

3900 BC - 100 AD

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Khytroi, 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. CXXIV, 10, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1839, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2348