Limestone hand holding a phiale (libation bowl)

Limestone hand holding a phiale (libation bowl)

Description:

Votaries or worshippers appear frequently in Cypriot sculpture. This fragment would have belonged to a male figure extending a phiale in his right hand.


WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 4 3/4 × 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 in., 4 lb. (12.1 × 20 × 13 cm, 1.8 kg)

Period:

Classical

Date:

499 - 300 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. XXVIII.105, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1157, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 287, p. 220, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2700