Limestone inscribed box fragment

Limestone inscribed box fragment

Description:

Fragment of a stone box (ex-voto) with Cypro-Syllabic inscription, dedicated to the Lady of Paphos.


Overall: 2 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 3/4 in. (7.3 x 9.5 x 1.9 cm)

Period:

Bronze Age

Date:

3900 BC - 100 AD

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from Khytroi, 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. CXXIV, 9, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1834, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2343