Chlorite box lid

Chlorite box lid

Description:

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)

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1200 - 1050 BC

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.5008