Limestone statuette of a boy holding a bird and a branch of leaves

Limestone statuette of a boy holding a bird and a branch of leaves

Description:

Figure holding bird and a spray of leaves.


Overall: 18 x 6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. (45.7 x 16.2 x 8.9 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

499 - 300 BC

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. CXIV.815, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1184, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 149, p. 135, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2697