Limestone inscribed disk - image 1

Bronze Age

Limestone inscribed disk

Other: Diameter.:7 x 1 1/16 in. (17.8 x 2.7 cm)

Date

3900 BC - 100 AD

Accession No.

74.51.2359

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from 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. 22, pp. 212-13, pl. V.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. CXXXIX, 6, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1865, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.