Limestone inscribed fragment

Limestone inscribed fragment

Description:

Statue base inscribed, "Menodoros."


H.: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (15.9 x 21.6 x 7.3 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. CXXXV, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1891, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2375