Limestone inscribed fragment - image 1

Bronze Age

Limestone inscribed fragment

Staue base dedicated "To the god, Apollo." H.: 2 x 5 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (5.1 x 13.3 x 3.5 cm)

Date

3900 BC - 100 AD

Accession No.

74.51.2371

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. 5, p. 207, pl. II.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. CXXXVIII, 1, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1893, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.