Bronze Age
Limestone inscribed box fragment
Fragment of a stone box with a Cyprio-Syllabic inscription, dedicated to the Lady of Paphos. Overall: 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 x 3/4 in. (6.4 x 8.3 x 1.9 cm)
Date
3900 BC - 100 AD
Accession No.
74.51.2314
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, 5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1835, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.