Bronze hemispherical bowl from a Knossos cemetery. Beneath the rim it bears a Phoenician inscription with the name of its owner. It is the earliest alphabetic inscripiton found in the Aegean. Late 10th-early 9th century BC.
Archaeological Museum, Herakleion X 4346. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Archaeological Receipts Fund.
Anatoliki Mesogeios: Kypros-Dodekanisa-Kriti 16os-6os aionas p.Ch., Archaeological Museum of Herakleion March-June 1998, University of Crete-Hellenic Ministry of Culture 23rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Herakleion 1998, p. 238, cat. no. 286.
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