Limestone incense burner on four legs - image 1

Archaic II

Limestone incense burner on four legs

The four wide legs, marked with a lambda-shaped sign on two sides, support a squarelike shaft between two projecting horizontal tiers. Webpub GR 2012 Cesnola: 4 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/4 in., 0.5 lb. (10.2 × 7 × 7 cm, 0.2 kg)

Date

599 - 500 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5181

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. LXVI.433, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1670, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 385, pp. 280-81, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.