Limestone statuette of a female votary, Bronze Age Cypriot

Bronze Age

Limestone statuette of a female votary

Figure wearing tunic with cloak drawn over the head, holding an apple. Overall: 23 1/4 × 8 × 3 3/4 in. (59.1 × 20.3 × 9.5 cm)

Classification

Object type: Stone sculpture
Material: StoneLimestone
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Golgoi
Date: 3900 BC - 100 AD

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Accession No.

74.51.2730

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. CXXXIV.990, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1248, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 210, p. 173, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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