Limestone beardless male head with a wreath of rosettes

Limestone beardless male head with a wreath of rosettes

Description:

Male head with wreath of large flowers.


Overall: 10 x 7 x 8 3/4 in. (25.4 x 17.8 x 22.2 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

500 - 490 BC

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. LXXXVI.570, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1299, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 106, pp. 108-9, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.2808