Marble inscribed ex-voto or statue base - image 1

Bronze Age

Marble inscribed ex-voto or statue base

Inscription in one line around three sides of a small marble pedestal. Characters 3/16 inches high, in all stages of legibility, and the whole difficult, since the surface is much worn, scratched, and broken in spots. Overall: 1 1/2 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in. (3.8 x 7.3 x 5.4 cm)

Date

3900 BC - 100 AD

Accession No.

74.51.2342

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. 8, p. 208, 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. CXXVII, 9-11, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1886, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.