Marble cippus fragment with Phoenician inscription, Classical Cypriot — Marble cippus fragment with Phoenician inscription, Classical Cypriot, c. 399–300 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.2271.Open Access by the MET

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)

Classification

Object type: Inscribed object
Material: StoneMarble
Period: probablyIron AgeCypro-ClassicalCypro-Classical II
Date: 399 - 300 BC
Findspot: Kition

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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.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.2271, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 1802
Yon 2004, no. 1004

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