Limestone votive head
Description: | This head, slightly swollen on one side, was part of a group of votive offerings. All of these ex-votos, symbolic dedications representing parts of the human body that needed to be healed, were found in one spot, as if they were placed before an altar or a temple. Overall: 1 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (4.4 x 12.1 cm) |
Period: | Hellenistic |
Date: | 300 - 1 BC |
Collection: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Provenance: | Sanctuary of Golgoi-Ayios Photios |
References: | Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. pl. XIII, 2 (788), St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.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. 158, London: John Murray.Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1878. Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations During Ten Years' Residence in That Island. p. 158, New York: Harper & Brothers.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. CXXIX.930, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1175, p. 183, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Masson, Olivier. 1997. "Les ex-voto trouves par L. Palma di Cesnola a Golgoi en 1870." Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes cat. g, pl. VII.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 427, pp. 302-3, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Accession Number: | 74.51.2598 |