Archaic I

Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

The painted inscription below the rim reads B‘LY (Baalay), the name of the owner of either the storage jar or its contents. H.: 18 15/16 in. (48.1 cm)

Date

650 - 600 BC

Accession No.

74.51.2298a, b

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

Said to be from Kition (modern Larnaka), Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1826, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Teixidor, Javier. 1976. "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 11: no. 21, p. 65.Yon, Marguerite. 2004. Kition-Bamboula V. Kition Dans Les Textes: Testimonia litteraires et epigraphiques et corpus des inscriptions., V. no. 1083, p. 186, Paris: Editions Recherché sur les Civilisations.