Stone plate, palette, or whetstone

Stone plate, palette, or whetstone

Description:

The edges of the bottom are beveled. On the top are two long


shallow, polished depressions as if to hold a couple of cylindrical objects. Probably used by


a painter to mix his colors. Inscription formerly in several lines, running the length of the


flat bottom, but at present all that remains is the end of one line.


H.: 1/4 x 4 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (0.6 x 11.7 x 5.7 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

399 - 300 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From CyprusSaid to be from Larnaca (Kition), 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. CXXXIX, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1856, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2365