Marble cippus fragment with Phoenician inscription - image 1

Classical

Marble cippus fragment with Phoenician inscription

Dedication of an offering. Overall: 2 3/4 x 3 x 2 1/2 in. (7 x 7.6 x 6.4 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2271

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from the sanctuary of Phoenician diety Eshmun-Melqarth at 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. CXXII,2, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1802, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 19, p. 64.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1004, p. 174, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.