Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Limestone statuette of a temple boy

Description:

Crouching temple boy with dedication to Apollo.


Overall: 5 1/2 x 4 x 2 1/8 in. (14 x 10.2 x 5.4 cm)

Period:

Classical

Date:

425 - 350 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Said to be from near the temple of Apollo Hylates (Ayia Anna) at Kourion, Cyprus

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CXXVII.8, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1847, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Beer, Cecilia. 1994. Temple-Boys: A Study of Cypriote Votive Sculpture, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 113. pp. 55-62, pl. 84a, Jonsered: Paul Aströms Förlag.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 255, p. 203, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Karnava, Artemis and Massimo Perna. 2020. Inscriptiones Graecae, Inscriptiones Cypri, XV 1, 1. no. 108, pp. 44-45, Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Accession Number:

74.51.2310