Limestone inscribed box fragment - image 1

Bronze Age

Limestone inscribed box fragment

Fragment of an inscribed box; dedicated to the Lady of Paphos. H.: 1 1/4 x 5 x 1 5/8 in. (3.2 x 12.7 x 4.1 cm)

Date

3900 BC - 100 AD

Accession No.

74.51.2351

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, 11, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1838, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.