Limestone statuette of a boy with a kausia

Limestone statuette of a boy with a kausia

Description:

Figure holding libation bowl.


Overall: 17 1/4 x 5 5/8 x 4 15/16 in. (43.8 x 14.3 x 12.5 cm)

Period:

Hellenistic

Date:

330 - 30 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. CXXXIV.994, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1188, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sjöqvist, Erik. 1955. "A Cypriote Temple Attendant." American Journal of Archaeology, 59(1): no. 1, p. 47.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 158, pp. 140-41, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2701