Limestone head of a beardless male with a plain headdress

Limestone head of a beardless male with a plain headdress

Description:

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)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 550 BC

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.2501