Geometric I

Limestone coffin model

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)

Classification

Object type: Model
Decoration: Relief and applied
Material: StoneLimestone
Period: Iron AgeCypro-GeometricCypro-Geometric I
Date: 1050 - 950 BC
Place of production: Cyprus
Findspot: Idalion

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Accession No.

74.51.5163

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.