Cesnola, Luigi Palma di [Editor]: A descriptive atlas of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Band 3) (New York, 1903)

PLA TE CXXIII. CONTINUED.

22. On the side of a large alabastron found in a tomb at Citium (see Vol. II. Plate CXLI,

No. 1048).

100 ">®bD

The numeral is 100; the word seems to occur elsewhere only on another object in the

Cesnola Collection (No. 28, below), and its purport is doubtful.

Cesnola, 25; I. H. Hall, Hebraica, Oct. 1885, p. 7.

23. Inscribed on a red terra-cotta vase from a tomb at Citium (see Vol. II, Plate CXLI,
No. 1052).

"OfAnthus." Possessor's name. Date uncertain.
Cesnola, 26; Birch, Trans. Soc. Bib/. Arcliaeoi, Vol. IV', p. 23; I. H. Hall, Hebraica,
Oct. 1885, p. 8.

24. On the bottom of a serpentine vase obtained at Nicosia (see Vol. II, Plate CXLI,
No. 1050).

Tin

Purport uncertain. Probably a proper name or a title of endearment.
Cesnola, 27; I. H. Hall, Hebraica, Oct. 1885, p. 8.

25. Painted on the side of a large jar (pithos), found in a tomo at Citium. Three lines
(see Vol. II, Plate CXLI, No. 1049).

The fourth letter in the first line is uncertain.

Probably " Ba'al Peles (Lord of Weight?) gave. He heard me."

Ward, 5; Cesnola, 8; Hall, ubi supra, p. 8.

26. On the side of a smaller, similar pithos, from a tomb at Citium.

"Ba'ali," as a deity; or "My Ba'al; or "My Lord."
Ward, 4 ; Cesnola, 7 ; Hall, ubi supra, p. 8.