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 |