Archaic II
Limestone head of a bearded male with a wreath of flowers
Bearded head wearing frontlet of flowers. Overall: 14 x 11 x 12 1/4 in. (35.6 x 27.9 x 31.1 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 599 - 500 BC
- Place of production
- Cyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Accession No.
74.51.2842
Collection
Provenance
- Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios
References
- Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1885. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 1. pl. LXXXII.541, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1287, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Gjerstad, Einar. 1948. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, and Cypro-Classical Periods, Vol. 4(2). p. 115, Stockholm: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 82, pp. 45, 90, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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