Limestone inscribed relief fragment

Limestone inscribed relief fragment

Description:

Grave releif fragment with palmette and inscription.


Overall: 4 1/4 x 5 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (10.8 x 14.3 x 5.7 cm)

Period:

Bronze Age

Date:

3900 BC - 100 AD

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Golgoi, 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. CXXVI, 4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1883, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2315