Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

Description:

The young man wears a short chiton and a himation that is draped over the left shoulder and falls under the left wrist. A double wreath of leaves surrounds the head. On the front of the plinth is an inscription of six syllabic signs interpreted as “(I belong) to the god Lenaios.”


Overall: 16 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (41.9 x 15.9 x 9.5 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

310 - 30 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion, Cyprus

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. LXXXV.564, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXVII, 5, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1845, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1961. Les Inscriptions Chypriotes Syllabiques: Recueil Critique et Commenté. no. 186, Paris: E. de Boccard.Mitford, Terence Bruce. 1971. The Inscriptions of Kourion. no. 21, pp. 52-54, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 129, p. 122, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 109, p. 45, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Accession Number:

74.51.2337