Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo

Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inscribed "Onasioros dedicated to the god Apollo in (good fortune!)" The inscription on this relief is in Cypriote syllabary, the origin of which has proven difficult to trace. Past attempts have been made to link it to Egyptian and Hittite hieroglyphics, the letter forms of the Phoencian alphabet and to the Cretan script Linear A, as well as the Mycenaean script Linear B.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Limestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to ApolloLimestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to ApolloLimestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to ApolloLimestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to ApolloLimestone votive relief fragment of a seated deity with an inscribed dedication to Apollo

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.