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- Museum number
- 125321
- Description
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Statue-base of imported marble with a bilingual inscription in Cypro-Syllabic and Phoenician scripts; almost square shaft with a depression on top, defined around the edges by a low rim (rather like on an altar), for supporting a statue of the donor; part of the top of the block is missing and the surface of the marble is scratched and worn in various places; the inscription is on one side only: the Phoenician letters are carved in fairly low relief in six lines from right to left in the upper part of the stone; beneath are five rows of shallow Cypro-Syllabic characters, also sinistroverse; dedication of a statue by Menahem to Apollo Heleitas/ Reshef 'lyyt in the thirtieth year of Milkyaton King of Kition and Idalion.
- Production date
- 363 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 46 centimetres
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Width: 19 centimetres
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Depth: 17.50 centimetres
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- Location
- On display (G72/dc2)
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Acquisition notes
- This item, and ME 1892, 12-13,12, was purchased along with objects of Near Eastern and Egytian provenance from R&F in 1892. The two Cypriot items formed part of a collection of antiquities loaned by Col. Falkland Warren, Chief Secretary of Cyprus, to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886. Most of these items were either donated to, or left on deposit with, the British Museum after the exhibition, but some appear to have been kept by Warren and subsequently put on the market before his departure for Canada after his retirement as Chief Secretary. Alternatively, the item remained at the Museum and Warren arranged the sale through R&F as his agents.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 125321
- Registration number
- 1892,1213.11
