Limestone head of Apollo
Description: | Colossal head with wreath of leaves, intended to represent Alexander the Great. WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 12 × 11 1/2 × 11 1/2 in., 72 lb. (30.5 × 29.2 × 29.2 cm, 32.7 kg) |
Period: | Bronze Age |
Date: | 3900 BC - 100 AD |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | “From the ruins of Karpass” |
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. XCVII.662, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1318, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Connelly, Joan. 1988. Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus. pp. 10, 48, 79, fig. 113, Nicosia, Cyprus: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus.Hermary, Antoine. 2009. "Un Apollon Chypriote aux Boucles 'Libyques'." Proceedings of the International Conference Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity, Nicosia, 3-6 April 2003, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Demetres Michaelides, and Robert S. Merrillees, eds. p. 138, fig. 14.6, Oxford: Oxbow Books.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 327, p. 244, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2838 |