Limestone altar
Description: | The altar is decorated on two sides; on one, together with a Cypro-syllabic inscription, is a sacrifice scene; on the other a couple are shown at a banquet. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 × 6 in., 9 lb. (23.8 × 16.2 × 15.2 cm, 4.1 kg) |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 500 - 450 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | Said to be from the sanctuary of Ayios Photios, Golgoi, Cyprus |
References: | Hall, Isaac H. 1874. "Cypriote Inscriptions of the Di Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10: no. 10, p. 208, pl. II.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. XXVII.85, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.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. CXXXI, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1860, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. no. 283, Paris: E. de Boccard.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 445, pp. 318-19, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2319 |