Classical

Marble cippus with Phoenician inscription

9 1/8 × 5 1/8 × 5 3/8 in., 18.5 lb. (23.2 × 13 × 13.7 cm, 8.4 kg)

Classification

Collection

Provenance

Said to be from the sanctuary of Phoenician diety Eshmun-Melqarth at Kition, Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1801, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 20, pp. 64-65.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1003, p. 174, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.

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