The tondo depicts and Egyptian ruler slaying a captive enemy; behind the ruler stands a servant with a fan. The narrative in the outer zone has a counterpart on a bowl from Praeneste in Italy. The story concerns a king's hunting expedition outside his city and his rescue by a falcon-winged deity. Considerable discussion has not elucidated whether it is a Near Eastern tale or a Greek saga about a hero such as Herakles presented with Levantine iconography.
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Title:Fragmentary silver bowl
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 710–675 BCE
Culture:Cypriot
Medium:Silver
Dimensions:H. 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm) diameter 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Classification:Gold and Silver
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:74.51.4556
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4556, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Childs, William A.P. 1978. The City-reliefs of Lycia. pp. 56–7, fig. 27, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 2a, pp. 136–37. Paul Aströms Förlag.
Hermary, Antoine. 1985. "Un nouveau chapiteau hathorique trouvé à Amathonte." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 109(2): p. 677.
Matthäus, Hartmut. 1985. Metallgefässe und Gefässuntersätze der Bronzezeit, der geometrischen und archaischen Periode auf Cypern: mit einem Anhang der bronzezeitlichen Schwertfunde auf Cypern, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Abteilung II Bd. 8. cat. 430, pp. 165, 376, pl. 36, 430, München: Beck.
Hendrix, Elizabeth. 1999. "A Cypriot Silver Bowl Reconsidered: II. The Technique and Physical History of the Bowl." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 34: pp. 23, 27–9, figs. 11, 13.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 305, pp. 186–7, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stylianou, Andreas and Patrick Schollmeyer. 2007. "Der Sarkophag aus Golgoi." Dynastensarkophage mit szenischen Reliefs aus Byblos und Zypern: Der Sarkophag aus Amathous als Beispiel kontaktinduzierten Wandels, 2. pp. 117 n. 920, 144 n. 1191, 148, Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern.
Aruz, Joan and Michael Seymour. 2016. Assyria to Iberia : Art and Culture in the Iron Age pp. 278–80, fig. 9, New York.
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