Limestone head of a bearded male with a wreath of leaves

Limestone head of a bearded male with a wreath of leaves

Description:

Bearded head wearing a frontlet of leaves.


Overall: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (31.8 x 24.1 x 22.2 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

475 - 450 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

“From the ruins at Idalium”

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. LXXXII.542, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1288, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 84, p. 91, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2835