Classical
Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription
Overall: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 7/8 in. (8.3 x 12.1 x 2.2 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone vessel
- Shape
- Bowl
- Period
- probablyIron AgeCypro-Classical
- Date
- 399 - 300 BC
- Findspot
- Kition
Accession No.
74.51.2277
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. 1808, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 1, pp. 56-57.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1006, p. 175, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.
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