Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

Description:

With bow, bow-case and quiver, and four arrows in right hand.


H. 15 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (40 x 7.4 x 8.6 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

550 - 501 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios

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. LXXXVII.574, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1092a, 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. 31, pl. V.3. Paul Aströms Förlag.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1990. Vol. 5: Herakles-Kenchrias. "Herakles (Cypri)," p. 193, no. 4, pl. 161, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 303, pp. 230-31, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2653