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 |