English: "Silver bowl; fragmentary, just over half of vessel preserved; decorated in repoussée and engraved figures and motifs; in the centre is a rosette medallion surrounded by an engraved zig-zag band composed of parallel lines surrounded by three concentric registers of figures: inner one composed of line of couchant sphinxes wearing uraeous and disk; central register has figures in Assyrian dress picking from an elaborate palmette or stylised sacred tree flanked by Egyptian religious figures (Harpocrates, Isis, Re-Harakhte, Nephthys, scarab etc); outer scene shows the siege of a city with files of military figures wearing 'hoplite', Egyptian and Urartian gear with fragmentary chariot entering from right side". From the Cypro-Archaic period, ca 750BC-600BC. Cyprian or Phoenician.[1] Image from the book Monuments antiques de Chypre, de Syrie et d'Égypte by Georges Colonna Ceccaldi
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