Archaic II
Limestone statuette of a male votary in Egyptianizing dress
Male figure in Egyptian style dress with elaborately ornamented apron. Overall: 14 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 2 7/8 in. (37.8 x 15.9 x 7.3 cm)
Date
500 - 480 BC
Accession No.
74.51.2605
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- “From Amathus”
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. LIV.347, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1035, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Wilson, Veronica. 1975. "The Iconography of Bes with Particular Reference to the Cypriot Evidence." Levant, 7. p. 100, pl. 18.C.Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1986. Vol. 3: Atherion-Eros. "Bes (Cypri et in Phoenicia)," p. 111, no. 36a, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.Faegersten, Fanni. 2003. The Egyptianizing Male Limestone Statuary from Cyprus: a study of a cross-cultural eastern Mediterranean votive type. no. 50, p. 348, fig. 11, pls. 11.3, 33, Lund, Sweden: The Historical Museum at Lund University.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 61, p. 74, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.