Limestone statuette of a male figure with Egyptianizing features

Limestone statuette of a male figure with Egyptianizing features

Description:

The figure wears an Egyptian kilt, a falcon mask, and a wig.


WebPub GR 2012 Cesnola: 15 3/4 × 7 1/2 × 4 1/2 in., 11 lb. (40 × 19.1 × 11.4 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

575 - 525 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Karpassia, not “in the ruins of a temple at Amathus” (Cesnola 1885)

References:

Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1877. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 344, London: John Murray.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. XXIV.58, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1268, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Sophocleous, Sophocles. 1985. ""Atlas des représentations chypro-archaiques des divinités." Master's Diss.." Master's Diss. no. 1, p. 179, pl. XLI.2. Paul Aströms Förlag.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 178, p. 113, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Faegersten, Fanni. 2003. The Egyptianizing Male Limestone Statuary from Cyprus: a study of a cross-cultural eastern Mediterranean votive type. no. 1, p. 347, pls. 1.1, 22, Lund, Sweden: The Historical Museum at Lund University.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 249, p. 197, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2516