Limestone head of Apollo

Limestone head of Apollo

Description:

Young male with wreath of leaves.


Overall: 10 1/8 x 7 x 6 1/2 in. (25.7 x 17.8 x 16.5 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

99 - 1 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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. XCVII.659, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1320, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. pp. 48, 79, fig. 112, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 328, pp. 244-45, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2815