Limestone coffin model

Limestone coffin model

Description:

This model is particularly elaborate, with the cutouts at the base and the decoration of the Great Goddess or her priestess and horned animals in low relief.


Overall: 4 3/16 x 4 1/4 x 3in. (10.6 x 10.8 x 7.6cm)

Period:

Geometric I

Date:

1050 - 950 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From the necropolis of Idalion

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. LXXIX.505, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1666, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 2, p. 91. Paul Aströms Förlag.Karageorghis, Jacqueline. 2005. Kypris: the Aphrodite of Cyprus: Ancient Sources and Archaeological Evidence. pp. 193-94, fig. 247, Nicosia, Cyprus: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 410, pp. 292-93, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.5163