Archaic II
Limestone head of a beardless male with a plain headdress
Head of a votary wearing a cap or wig. Overall: 4 1/2 × 4 × 4 15/16 in. (11.4 × 10.2 × 12.5 cm)
Date
600 - 550 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2501
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- Golgoi-Ayios Photios, “near the temple”
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. XXXVI.227, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1277, 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). pl. VIII.1, Stockholm: The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 47, pp. 59, 64, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Höckmann, Ursula. 2017. "Kunsthandwerkliche Motive unterschiedlicher Provenienz in der zyprisch-griechischen Kleinplastik der 1. Hälfte des 6. Jhs. v. Chr.." Istanbuler Mitteilungen, 67: p. 17, fig. 10.