Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

Description:

The painted inscription reads Baalazor, probably the name of the owner.


Height: 28 x 9 1/2 in. (71.1 x 24.1 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

399 - 300 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Kition (Larnaka), Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1828, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 22, p. 66.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1086, p. 187, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.

Accession Number:

74.51.2299