Head of a boy, Hellenistic Cypriot statue — Head of a boy, Hellenistic Cypriot, c. 299–200 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.1517.Open Access by the MET

Hellenistic

Head of a boy

The head is mold-made and solid. The back is handmade and rounded. The head and neck are preserved. H. 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

Classification

Object type: Terracotta figurine
Decoration: Moulded
Material: Clay
Period: Hellenistic and RomanHellenistic
Date: 299 - 200 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Kition

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From CyprusSaid to be from the temple of Artemis Paralia at Kition, Cyprus

References

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1894. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 2. pl. LXVII.620, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 360, p. 30, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2298, p. 361, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Robinson, David Moore. 1931. Excavations at Olynthus: The Terra-cottas of Olynthus found in 1928, Vol. 4, D.M. Robinson, ed. p. 78, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.Sjöqvist, Erik. 1955. "A Cypriote Temple Attendant." American Journal of Archaeology, 59(1): no. D18, pp. 46-47.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 394, pp. 233, 265, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.1517, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 2298
Karageorghis 2016, no. 394

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