Limestone head of a bearded male with a plain headdress

Limestone head of a bearded male with a plain headdress

Description:

Bearded head with collar in the Egyptian fashion.


Overall: 13 x 11 1/2 x 11 in. (33 x 29.2 x 27.9 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

560 - 540 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios

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. 141, 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. XXIII.52, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1272, 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. 28, p. 347, pl. 28, Lund, Sweden: The Historical Museum at Lund University.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 56, pp. 66, 70-71, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2873