Limestone head with of a beardless male with a wreath of leaves - image 1

Archaic II

Limestone head with of a beardless male with a wreath of leaves

Wearing fillet. Overall: 5 3/4 x 3 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. (14.6 x 9.8 x 12.1 cm)

Date

500 - 480 BC

Accession No.

41.160.412

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. LVIII.496, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 107, pp. 108-9, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.