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Model Shrine in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Model Shrine in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009
Model Shrine
Ceramic
Amathus, Cyprus
ca. 600 BC

# MS 156

Model shrines such as this one are associated with the Phoenicians and their expansion westward into the Mediterranean. Note the typical Phoenician stylistic features like the crescent moon and sun-disk above the doorway and the proto-Aeolic column capitals.

Text from the U. Penn Museum label.

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