Limestone votary of a bearded male with a wreath

Limestone votary of a bearded male with a wreath

Description:

This over-lifesize figure depicts a bearded man making an offering. He wears an ornate wreath of ivy leaves, flowers, and laurel sprays, and holds a libation bowl (phiale) in his right hand and a box and a small branch in his left. He wears a chiton and has a himation draped over his left shoulder—attire that in classical Greece would have been more appropriate for a woman, since men were usually represented in heroic or athletic nudity. The right forearm of the statue is modern.


WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 70 1/2 × 24 × 14 in., 495 lb. (179.1 × 61 × 35.6 cm, 224.5 kg)

Period:

Classical

Date:

450 - 400 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From the Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios

References:

Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 81, p. 25, pls. V.11, IX.10, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 151, London: John Murray.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. LXIV.430, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1408, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine. 2005. "Les derniers temps du royaume d'Idalion et son annexion par Kition." Cahier du Centre d' Études Chypriotes, 35. p. 123, fig. 23.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 86, pp. 84, 92-4, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Olien, Catherine. 2016. "The Cypriot fragment at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 19th century." Ancient Cyprus Today : Museum Collections and New Research, Giorgos Bourogiannis and Christian Mühlenbock, eds. p. 38, fig. 3, Uppsala: Paul Aströms Förlag.

Accession Number:

74.51.2462