Pithos
55-9-1
Location: On Display in the Eastern Mediterranean Gallery
From: Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | 55-9-1 |
| Current Location | Eastern Mediterranean Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Cypriot |
| Provenience | Cyprus | Kourion | Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates |
| Site Name | Kourion |
| Date Made | 50-150 CE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Iconography | Inscription |
| Inscription Language | Ancient Greek Language |
| Description | Four joining fragments - with a Greek inscription. Part of rim and shoulder of large pithos, four joining fragments. Below the molded rim an inscription in Greek incised in clay while clay was still soft. Beneath this, two rows of small impressed circles and two wheel-run lines, and at bottom of fragment part of a triangular arrangement of impressed circles. Ex-voto of a potter Polyktetos, Son of Timon, to Apollo Hylates and Apollo Caesar. |
| Height | 0 cm |
| Length | 56.5 cm |
| Width | 35 cm |
| Depth | 17 cm |
| Thickness | 1.9 cm |
| Credit Line | Exchange with Metropolitan Museum of Art and Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1955 |
| Other Number | P1053 - Field No SF | P2939 - Field Number | 37-27-1 - Old Museum Number | 74.51.2447 - Metropolitan Museum of Art | 37.11.22 - Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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