Limestone head of a female votary

Limestone head of a female votary

Description:

Female head with double frontlet of rosettes, necklace, and elaborate earrings.


WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 13 × 10 × 10 in., 40 lb. (33 × 25.4 × 25.4 cm, 18.1 kg)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

500 - 490 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Lapethos

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.538, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1296, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Gjerstad, Einar. 1948. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cypro-Geometric, Cypro-Archaic, and Cypro-Classical Periods, Vol. 4(2). p. 115, Stockholm: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 4b, pp. 65-6. Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine. 1985. "Un nouveau chapiteau hathorique trouvé à Amathonte." Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 109(2): pp. 692, 695 n. 152.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 198, p. 166, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2825