Limestone head of a beardless male votary, Hellenistic Cypriot statue

Hellenistic

Limestone head of a beardless male votary

Figure with short wavy hair, a type of young Augustus. Overall: 12 x 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (30.5 x 19.7 x 26.7 cm)

Classification

Object type: Stone sculpture
Material: StoneLimestone
Period: Hellenistic and RomanHellenistic
Date: 99 - 60 BC
Place of production: probablyCyprus
Findspot: Golgoi

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Accession No.

74.51.2789

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. CXXXIX.1038, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1326, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. no. 45, pp. 10, 82-3, 85, 96, 113, figs. 143-44, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 408, p. 252, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 143, p. 131, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Scherrer, Peter, Gabriele Koiner, and Anja Ulbrich. 2013. Hellenistisches Zypern [Hellenistic Cyprus. Proceedings of the International Conference, Department of Archaeology, University of Graz, 14 October 2010] p. 140, n. 157, Graz: Unipress graz.

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