
Classical
Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription
Overall: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.8 x 4.8 x 3.2 cm)
Date
399 - 300 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2286
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. 1817, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 5, p. 58.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1016, p. 176, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.
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