Limestone inscribed block - image 1

Classical

Limestone inscribed block

There are two inscriptions; one is a text in three lines of Cypro-Syllabic and the other is a single word in Greek, meaning "of Themias." The two may not be contemporary, and the Greek may have been added when the block was reused. Overall: 8 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (22.2 x 50.2 x 12.1 cm)

Date

499 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2321

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. 4, p. 2074, pl. I.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. CXXIX, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1898, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1971. "Kypriaka IX: Recherches sur les antiquités de Golgoi." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 95(1): no. 8, pp. 328, 330, fig. 17.Bodel, John P. and Stephen Tracy. 1997. Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the USA : A Checklist. p. 186, Rome: American Academy in Rome.Kantirea, Maria and Daniela Summa. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 2, 1. no. 341, p. 105, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.