Limestone head of a bearded male votary

Limestone head of a bearded male votary

Description:

Figure wearing wreath.


Overall: 11 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (27.9 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

330 - 200 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

“From a ruin at Pyla”

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. CV.684, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1315, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 33, pp. 80, 84, 89, 106, 112, figs 119-20, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 92, p. 98, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2788