Aufbewahrungsort:
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Dort wird eine andere Platte aus dem Museumsbestand dokumentiert:
Description
This beautiful and exceptionally important plate belongs to a set of nine,
three of which are in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. The group was discovered
in 1902 in Karavás (northern Cyprus) sealed with a horde of jewelry and
gold, much of which is also now in the Museum's collection, a gift of J.
Pierpont Morgan in 1917. Originally the small- and medium-sized plates were
arranged around the largest, which shows David's combat with Goliath. On the
backs are the control stamps of the emperor Heraclius, who may have
commissioned them to celebrate his victory over the Persians in 628–29,
which resulted in the recapture of Jerusalem. During the war, it is said
that Heraclius fought the Persian general Razatis in single-handed combat,
an event which is perhaps evoked in the depiction of David's defeat of
Goliath. Imperial imagery is present also on the middle-sized plates, where
ceremonial scenes from the biblical king's life are set before the arcade of
a palace. Their style is a conscious reference to classical art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=17.190.396&dep=17
Zum Museum s. Nr. 443.
Zum Schatz von Lamboussa s. Nr.
281.
