Archaic II
Limestone head of a bearded male wearing a conical helmet
The beard, broken around the lower edge, is divided into rows of large curled strands. He has a smiling curved mouth, a pointed nose with hollowed nostrils, wide-open eyes with almost flat eyeballs and delicate eyelids, thick, high-set eyebrows, and well-defined ears. A row of curled locks projects below the helmet. The surface is covered with diamond-shaped lozenges. H.: 14 1/2 x 9 x 10 3/4 in. (36.8 x 22.9 x 27.3 cm)
Classification
- Object type
- Stone sculpture
- Period
- Iron AgeCypro-Archaic
- Date
- 599 - 400 BC
- Place of production
- probablyCyprus
- Findspot
- Golgoi
Accession No.
74.51.2849
Collection
Provenance
- “City of Golgoi”
References
- Doell, Johannes. 1873. Die Sammlung Cesnola. no. 231, p. 45, pl. VIII.1, St. Petersburg: L’Académie Impérial des Sciences.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. LIX.405, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1282, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Hermary, Antoine and Joan R. Mertens. 2013. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Stone Sculpture. no. 18, pp. 40-41, Online Publication, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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