Alabaster inscribed "alabastron"
Unknown
4th century BCE ? · Dark alabaster · Greek and Roman Art
The large “alabastron” has a flat base, no neck, and a flat mouth. One of the two lugs is broken. Four Phoenician letters that are difficult to interpret and three vertical lines (the number 100?) are incised under the mouth.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th century BCE ?
- Medium
- Dark alabaster
- Culture
- Cypriot
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
