Chlorite box lid - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Chlorite box lid

There is a hole in the center. Around it is a rosette and a zone of cross-hatched triangles. The underside is worked for insertion into the mouth of a vase. H. 3/8 in. (1 cm); Diam. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

Date

1200 - 1050 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5008

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • “From Amathus”

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. CXV.5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1560, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 575, p. 402, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.