• Source: Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions

The Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions are 28 Phoenician inscriptions from Cyprus (primarily Kition) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cesnola Collection. They were discovered by Luigi Palma di Cesnola during his tenure as the United States Consul to Cyprus from 1865 to 1871. They were inscribed on votive bowls, two stelae, and on 18 different vases.
The Cesnola Collection was brought to public attention for the first time in 1870 when Emil Rödiger presented a report to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and in 1872 Paul Schröder (Philologe) published facsimiles of the texts. The collection was acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1872. Many were then published in the 1880s in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, although CIS inscriptions 24, 26 and 28 and RES 389, 1518 and 1519 are now missing - i.e. they are not in the museum and some were not in the collection when it was studied in 1885. One is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (72.129).
They were first systematically classified by John Myres in 1914, and then again by Javier Teixidor in 1976.




Inscriptions


Details of the inscriptions are below, using Teixidor's numbering.




= Krater fragments

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= Marble blocks

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= Vases

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= Other

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Bibliography


Cannavò, Anna; Schmid, Stephan G. (2020-12-01). "From Paul Schröder's archives on Cyprus, IV. The inscriptions from the Lang and Cesnola collections". Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes (50): 175–193. doi:10.4000/cchyp.504. ISSN 0761-8271.
Teixidor, Javier (1976). "The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cesnola Collection". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 11: 55–70. doi:10.2307/1512684. ISSN 0077-8958.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1801, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum: [1] and [2]




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions
• Luigi Palma di Cesnola
• Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions
• Phoenician metal bowls
• Ancient history of Cyprus
• Amathus
• Resheph
• Idalium
• Ancient Cypriot art
• Olivier Masson