Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription - image 1

Classical

Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription

Overall: 1 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3/4 in. (3.2 x 8.3 x 1.9 cm)

Date

399 - 300 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2284

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • Said to be from the sanctuary of Phoenician diety Eshmun-Melqarth at Kition, Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1815, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 6, p. 58.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1021, p. 176, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.