Limestone sphinx supporting a votive bowl

Limestone sphinx supporting a votive bowl

Description:

Sphinx supporting a votive bowl.


H.: 5 1/8 x 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. (13 x 8.9 x 11.7 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

525 - 480 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From the necropolis of Idalion

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. CVI.691, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1088, p. 169, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1940-1945. "Excavations in Cyprus, 1913." Annual of the British School at Athens, 41: pp. 66, 68.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 381, p. 279, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2582